Quotes About Character

Bullshit may get you to the top, but it never lets you stay there!

The self is the same. Either you wear a masculine peel or a feminine peel. That is all it is.

Love is not something you do; it is just the way you are.

Moral of the story: bullshit may get you to the top, but it never lets you stay there!

I have more respect for a man who let me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil

A man who stands for nothing will fall for everything.

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.

que le même homme peut être très énergétique en même temps que doux

When we say to someone, Oh you're behaving like an animal, it's actually a compliment rather than an insult. We need to work for a science of peace and build a culture of empathy, and emphasize the positive, pro-social side of the character of other animals and ourselves. It's truly who we and other animals are.

Here's the thing about values: You have to use words to identify them, but they won't create true value for you unless they turn into consistent behaviors.

a monologue defines its author as reliably as his fingerprints.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. —John Dryden, seventeenth-century English poet and dramatist

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Whenever you want to cheer yourself up, consider the good qualities of your companions, for example, the energy of one, the modesty of another, the generosity of yet another, and some other quality of another; for nothing cheers the heart as much as the images of excellence reflected in the character of our companions, all brought before us as fully as possible. Therefore, keep these images ready at hand.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.