Quotes About Character

Is she sad? she asked. No, honey. She's lived-in.

One isn't born courageous, one becomes it.

You must base everything on these three rules: behave well, speak well, act well.

When it comes to married life, character takes precedence over looks...

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand. He that gives good advice and sets a good example, builds with both hands. But he that gives good advice and sets a bad example, builds with one hand and tears down with the other.

The fifty-three-year-old former Eagle Scout from South Carolina didn't drink, smoke, or swear; the most colorful expletive in his vocabulary was "dad gum."7 He was a West Pointer and had been an artillery commander in World War II.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. —John F. Kennedy

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.

As Wilhelm Reich demonstrated in his groundbreaking work on the formation of character, the personality is built on these points of self-estrangement; the paradox is that what we take to be so real, our selves, is constructed out of a reaction against just what we do not wish to acknowledge.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

Io non racconto mai bugie. Mia madre diceva sempre che dipendeva dal fatto che sono una brava persona. Invece non dipende dal fatto che sono una brava persona. È così perché non sono capace di raccontare bugie.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can't tell lies.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can't tell lies.

Mark Halperin

Of all the things to worry about; the Wookie has no pants.

Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.

First we form habits, then they form us.

No matter how you describe a protagonist, each reader has a personal vision of that character. Leave room for the reader's imagination.

We are responsible for living in a way that shows others who we truly are and what we believe.

Whatever you are, be a good one. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN

It takes just about the same amount of time to be a nice guy as it does to be a jerk.

All leadership begins with self-mastery. You can't lead others until you can first lead yourself.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.