Quotes About Character

Un hombre es como un árbol: En un bosque de sus iguales crecerá tan recto como su naturaleza individual y genérica lo permita; solo en campo abierto, cede a las tensiones y torsiones deformantes que lo rodean.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

I am one of them. I am also Rachel. I am Risika

It's a rare man who's made better by a bit of power.

Her mother had always warned her a man is judged by his best moment, a woman by her worst.

I don't trust a man who drinks,' he growled, not bothered about dressing it up. 'A man takes to drinking, then he gets weak, then his mind goes.' Cosca sadly shook his head. 'You have it back to front. A man's mind goes, then he gets weak, then he takes to drink. The bottle is the symptom, not the cause.

Great men have great faults.

That was an age of great men doing what was right...This is an age of little men doing what they must.

You are a gentleman, sir,' muttered Cosca. 'I am a murderer.' 'I see no reason why a man cannot be both . . .

You can't change the fact the world's full of arseholes. You can only change how you deal with them.

A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends.

Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest." The old man winced as he squatted down beside Jezal. "Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

You, that judge men by the handle and the sheath, how can I make you know a good blade?' Jedediah

Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers...

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to half-wits. A great leader puts others before himself. You would be surprised how acting so makes it easier to bear one's own troubles. In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like one.

A man has to bend with the breeze.' The Great Wolf's grin was wider than ever. 'You're a bastard, Clover. But you're my kind of bastard.' Stour's kind of bastard. That was where all his cleverness had got him.

Perhaps this would be a great day, the first of a great era, and he would be proud in after years to have had his part in it. Even if his part had been a dark one. Some men, after all, can only play dark parts. - Shenkt

it was strange how circumstances would rarely let one be the hero, however much one might want to be. However much one might deserve to be.

He would have liked to ask Tunny for his opinion. No one had better instincts for self-preservation, after all. But Tunny had, of course, followed those very instincts and slipped away as the riots worsened.

Greedy as a duck, brave as a pigeon, loyal as a cuckoo." "I always modelled myself on the nobler birds.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Stour might be both, but you're neither.

Every hero is someone's villain

Seemed being a better man might be harder work than he'd thought.