Quotes About Character

a man who doesn't keep his word isn't much of a man at all.

It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him,

In hard times, it's easy to become hard. But here was a man who always looked for the best in folk. Didn't always find it, but never gave up looking. Wasted no time polishing his own name. Singing his own songs. Didn't have to.

Codes of honour, I fear, aren't worth the paper they're not written on.

his brother used to tell him it was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

But being an arsehole is crime and punishment both.

A good leader can't dwell on the choices he's made, Threetrees used to tell him, and a good leader can't help dwelling on 'em.

Everyone says you're the most untrustworthy bitch in the whole North.' 'No one should know better than you what the things everyone says are worth. Truth is, I only care about keeping my word to folk I like. I seem untrustworthy because there are only seven of those outside the hills.' She made a fist of her tattooed hand, trembling tight. 'To those seven, I am a rock.

His face was like a whipped back, criss-crossed with ragged scars. His

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 halfwits. A great leader puts others before himself. You

It has honesty, integrity. The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

Los hombres buenos nunca llegan muy lejos cuando hay que recorrer sendas oscuras.

My friend,' said the nobleman, 'you're a bloody hero!' Lamb looked at him sideways as he raised the bottle. 'I'm bloody, all right.

But what does it matter? It is not how you die, but how you lived, that counts.

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

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him, his father always used to say. Where was the glory in easy victories?

It's what you give out that makes a man, not what you get back.

The best thing to do is create a lagom number of processes. Erlang comes from Sweden, and the word lagom loosely translated means "not too few, not too many, just about right." Some say that this summarizes the Swedish character.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

A second Stoop stepped up. "I am Dork!" he began.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an action, but a habit. —Aristotle

Jesus emphasized again and again that character precedes conduct and that morality is a matter of the heart (5:3–48).

I believe in doing a job of work, not talking about it. I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing