Quotes About Character

No violence; violence is the proof of weakness.

Quién sabe además si el genovés no era uno de esos hombres que tienen bastante talento para no saber nunca mas que lo que deben saber, ni creer nunca mas que lo que les importa creer?

Ivrogne tant que tu le voudras ; tant pis pour ceux qui craignent le vin, c'est qu'ils ont quelque mauvaise pensée qu'ils craignent que le vin ne leur tire du cœur... Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau, C'est bien prouvé par le déluge.

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 once 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.

Danglars gehörte zu jenen Menschen, die mit einer Feder hinter dem Ohr und mit einem Tintenfass an Stelle des Herzens geboren werden.

O puÈ™c? fusese mult? vreme visul tân?rului. În toate ??rile unde independenÈ›a ia locul libert??ii, prima nevoie pe care orice inim? tare, orice caracter puternic o încearc? e aceea a unei arme care asigur? totdeauna atacul È™i ap?rarea È™i care, f?cându-l pe acela ce o poart? cumplit, îl face, deseori, È™i temut.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturally suggested to them certain laws and a certain political character. This

People sought reforms, not rights. Had the throne then been occupied by a monarch of the calibre and character of Frederick the Great, I have no doubt he would have accomplished many of the reforms which were brought about by the Revolution; and that not only without endangering his throne, but with a large gain of power.

It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men;

Rather, he accepted democracy as an objective fact and wanted to address positive and negative lessons the French people could learn from the American example. He wrote, "I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress."5

The habit of inattention must be considered as the greatest bane of the democratic character

If, instead of all the diverse powers which excessively hindered or slowed down the flight of reason of the individual, democratic nations substituted the absolute power of a majority, only the character of this social ill would have been changed. Men would not have achieved the means of living independently; they would simply have lighted upon—a difficult enough task in itself—a new face of enslavement.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

La vida es carácter. Carácter es conflicto. Conflicto es vida. Ese es el círculo vicioso en que todos estamos encerrados. También tú»

Holiness doesn't require a halo, folded hands, or an otherworldly preoccupation.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty— they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. MARTIN BUXBAUM

When God measures a person, He puts the tape around the heart, not around the head. AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

I think of life as a book of stories. You move through the stories and the characters change. But once you have a name on your skin you are stuck with one story, even if it's a bad one.

A decade or two on the rocks gives a person character. Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.