Quotes About Character

With such men at the helm, the GEB, for all its good works, would fall considerably short of heaven.

Breathtakingly generous in his philanthropy, Rockefeller could also be stingy—appallingly so.

Shy and bookish, she tended, like Rockefeller, to arrive at brilliant solutions by slow persistence.

He peppered his talk with references to his forgiving nature.

He avoided a gaudy residence and had no desire to impress other people.

The photograph captured the man whole.

His grandson wrote that Hamilton's personality was "a mixture of aggressive force and infinite tenderness and amiability.

What makes him so problematic—and why he continues to inspire such ambivalent reactions—is that his good side was every bit as good as his bad side was bad.

Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes

My mother had brought me here when I was fifteen, on a Sunday after I'd read Look Homeward, Angel for the first time. She'd loved the novel, memorizing whole paragraphs, and, of course, naming me after the book's main character. It is a novel you have to read as a young person or you don't get it.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."1

People's true nature comes to the fore as soon as things start to go wrong.

And in this life, nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character.

And in this life, nothing good is ever lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours forever

It was good. And nothing good is ever lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of one's character.

Money is only as good as the people who possess it. It can be squandered and wasted, or it can be used prudently, to enrich and enhance.

He appeared to Gustav like a caricature of a reserved English gentleman, with brilliantined white hair, a rosy complexion and a ridiculous little moustache, trimmed so close to his top lip, it resembled a worn-out nail brush.

She said surprisingly, in a voice as thin as a flute: Are you a good man? I like to think so, but her candor stopped me. No, I said, I'm not. I keep trying, when I remember to, but it keeps getting tougher every year. Like trying to chin yourself with one hand. You can practice off and on all your life, and never make it.

Yes you are pretty, and when you pictured perfect, you came damn close, but the part of you I like the most is inside.

The Lord Jesus cannot live in us fully and reveal Himself through us until the proud self within us is broken. This

I, for one, don't think anything about it at all," responded Hiram, bluntly. "He's either a dreamer or a skeesicks. His not coming back to us looks as if he had served his purpose in getting

you will not be good teachers if you focus only upon what you do and not upon what you are.