Quotes About Character

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

I know I`m mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.

Amalia avait l'imprévisibilité d'une écharde.

Sarratore's son is really unbearable.

Roberto the whole time with an attitude

that my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn't books that made people good but good people who made some good books.

Va a costar mucho trabajo motivar a Sophie para cometer uno o varios crímenes, ya que su naturaleza la inclina a no esforzarse demasiado.

men can be pigs, but also the opposite. what is the opposite of a pig?

The Enneagram is not a system of personality, as it is so often presented, but rather a definition of character fixation. The same character fixation can manifest across a full range of personalities. Jack Nicholson and Slobodan Milosevic have the same character fixation but different personalities.

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

It was impossible not to think that her beauty was one of the most important things about her–something having to do with who she really was.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

Had it not been for empty, there would have been nothing to fill. Nothing to struggle with, strive for or dream. Although fulfillment is our ending destiny, it's the getting there that builds character. That puts muscle in faith, and sweats out victory. Vigilance is the empty, that pushes all our nothings into something.

There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.

You become what you do most of the time.

Hobbies and interests are often aspects of a human being which most clearly define his individuality, and make him the person he is.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

One's own character inevitably comes to resemble the things one spends most of one's day with.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.