Quotes About Character

A man who is strong and tough never needs to show it in his dress or the way he cuts his hair. Toughness is a quality of the mind, like bravery or honesty or ambition; it has nothing whatever to do with muscles.

Is it conceivable that a man like Raffles, with his knowledge of the world, and his experience of women (a side of his character upon which I have purposely never touched, for it deserves another volume);

No man's credit is as good as his money.

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior." - Earl Warren

Chasing Around Woman is not considered manly among Italins, It's a sign of weak character

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

And yet what a man is speaks louder than what he does.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

Your attitude is your personal brand. Make sure it reflects the best version of yourself.

Every church and believer must ask: What are we known for in the community? What do we represent?

Thus Betty scraped through a second bitter crisis, one that might have shattered a character more brittle. But she had grown sharp as bile from this, her latest shock, and each passing day increased her edge. Worse, there was no one now to notice her shrinking humanity and cry halt...by turns she would become lightheaded, cackling away like one insane. It was the lightness of one who has nothing more to lose.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

If what I have called the "value gap" is the idea that in America white lives have always mattered more than the lives of others, then the lie is a broad and powerful architecture of false assumptions by which the value gap is maintained. These are the narrative assumptions that support the everyday order of American life, which means we breathe them like air. We count them as truths. We absorb them into our character.

Power mattered. But in the end, for Jimmy, what kind of human beings we aspired to be mattered more. And I am convinced he was absolutely right, especially for our after times.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.