Quotes About Character

An honest person can be sold or purchased but never honesty

BiÅŸeye daha inan?yorum; bir kurumun, bir kurulun, bir fabrikan?n ba??ndaki insan sessiz, terbiyeliyse ordaki bütün insanlar da-kap?c?ya kadar-o baÅŸtakine benzer, sessiz, terbiyeli olur. BaÅŸtaki gürültücü pat?rt?c?, kavgac?ysa-ta kap?c?ya kadar- gürültü pat?rt?c?, kavgac? olur.

Bad things do't happen to Bad people. Bad things happen to Good people to make yhem Great people.

Bad things don't happen to Bad people. Bad things happen to Good people to make them Great people.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Ledger is still in love with Abby," he said with a sigh. "I can't see any way that can have a happy ending." Just like his own situation, he though. "Boone, well, he's ornery enough that it will take a special woman to turn his head.

Devotion in faith, sweetness in voice, alacrity in alms-giving, guilelessness in relation with friends, humility for the Guru, depth in character; piety in behaviour, regard for merit, erudition in scriptural knowledge, beauty in appearance and belief in Lord Shiva (or in the welfare of all) are, O Raghav (Lord Rama), your attributes!

the Guru, depth in character; piety in behaviour,

Like gold is tested by rubbing, cutting, heating and beating so also a man is tested by his sacrifice, moral conduct, innate qualities and his actions.

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others.

Men's thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.

Some build rather upon the abusing of others, and (as we now say) putting tricks upon them, than upon soundness of their own proceedings.

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

A great deal of excellent research has been spent on the difference between "humor" and "wit," into which metaphysical problem " our limits," of course, forbid us to enter. There is, however, between them, the distinction of dry sticks and green sticks; there is in humor a living energy, a diffused potency, a noble sap; it grows upon the character of the humorist.

Most men mostly imitate what they see, and catch the tone of what they hear, and so a settled type—a persistent character—is formed.

The heart and passions of men are moved by things more within their attainment; the essential nature is stirred by the essential life; by the real actual existence of love, and hope, and character, and by the real literature which takes in its spirit, and which is in some sort its undefecated essence.

It is possible to conceive a character in which but one impulse is ever felt—in which the whole being, as with a single breeze, is carried in a single direction. The only exercise of the will in such a being is in aiding and carrying out the dictates of the single propensity. And this is something.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

I definitely don't want to be one of the bad guys. And I don't want to be one of the people who bring rap a bad name. That's not me.

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'