Quotes About Character

In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

In the unlikely event of this book being made into a film, System 2 would be a supporting character who believes herself to be the hero.

Uma história é sobre eventos significativos e momentos memoráveis, não sobre a passagem do tempo. A negligência com a duração é normal em uma narrativa, e o fim muitas vezes define seu caráter. [...] É assim que o eu recordativo funciona: ele compõe histórias e as retém para futura referência.

The essential feature of this internal signal is that the sense of coherence is part of the experience of judgment. It is not contingent on a real outcome. As a result, the internal signal is just as available for nonverifiable judgments as it is for real, verifiable ones. This explains why making a judgment about a fictitious character like Gambardi feels very much the same as does making a judgment about the real world.

Ad hominem: An abbreviation for argumentum ad hominem, meaning an argument against an idea or statement based on the character of the person who authored it. It is sometimes used to discredit a philosophy of life proclaimed by someone who does not live up to it himself, as in, "He talks the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk, so I'm not listening to his advice.

God only allows his Divine Presence to rest on someone who is strong, wealthy, wise, and humble.

To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more than a minor character in somebody else's tale, it means that you are truly dead.

One should aim to be worthy. But worthy of what? Worthy of one's self!

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us either to fortune or failure. — Jim Rohn

She was also a gifted liar who had never been saddled with a cumbersome moral compass.

Employers had learned long ago that the online presence of an individual spoke volumes about his character.

The great Ari Shamron was eternal, but the vessel in which his spirit resided would not last forever.

Any fool can slide down the mountain, but it takes someone of character and discipline walk up one. - Luigi Donati

hamartia in his character. The fatal flaw

Because men who tell one lie usually tell others. - Gabriel Allon

This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

Your palms break sweat and you sit there, needy, while your work ethic and character are available for comment from strangers you wouldn't share a joint with at a blues festival.

Ree sat chilled inside her squat tent. To occupy her mind, she decided to name all the Miltons: Thump, Blond, Catfish, Spider, Whoop, Rooster, Scrap… Lefty, Dog, Punch, Pinkeye, Momsy… Cotton, Hog-jaw, Ten Penny, Peashot…

Tip began to nod, then shook his head. "I could be eight kinds of crooked, there, piglet, but I ain't never been no kind of dumb.

I said, "There's ditches his size, too.