Quotes About Character

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.

I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Success is good for the character.

Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

You can really Lead Without a Title.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

As for Porthos, I believe him to be eternal, like God, although less patient.

This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at one the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.

La felicidad hace buenos hasta a los malvados.

so powerful is the influence of a truly great character on all that surrounds it.

No ho l'uniforme, ma ho lo spirito. Il mio cuore è moschettiere e mi trascina.

But there are shutters?' 'Yes, there are, but they are never used. He's eccentric, this Count of Monte Cristo, and likes to see the sky, even at night.

At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.

It is his way, and you must take him as you find him.

So! Isn't it worth one's curiosity to study the different ways that the soul may leave the body and how, according to the character, the temperament, or even the local customs of a country, individuals face up to that supreme journey from being to nothingness? As for me, I can assure you of one thing: the more you have seen others die, the easier it becomes to die oneself. So, in my opinion, death may be a torment, but it is not an expiation.