Quotes About Character

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

you did it, not because you're being punished. He can tell the difference too!

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right . . . Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right . . . Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

Tenía un carácter apacible y su trato era cortés y afectuoso.

Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

To look good in defeat is the ultimate a person can want.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Mandela had a conviction that only goodness could win in a moral struggle. He believed that even under unjust persecution, people should treat others with kindness and respect, that anything less was a failing of his own character.

This is a classic weaponization of values. It's not something that good or moral leaders should ever do.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

That's what I love doing - understanding another person's perspective that's really different from mine. To me, it's like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

I like to think of myself as a class act, and there are very few guys that meet all of my qualifications.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.