Quotes About Character

sólo el tiempo muestra al hombre justo, mientras que podrías conocer al perverso en un solo día.

Now don't, please, be quite so single-minded, self-involved, or assume the world is wrong and you are right. Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too... such men, I tell you, spread them open-you will find them empty.

È impossibile conoscere a fondo anima, pensiero, intendimento di un uomo, prima che abbia dato pubblica prova di sé nell'esercizio del potere, secondo le leggi.

I am the shape you made me. Filth teaches filth.

There was a young man favorably endowed as an Alcibiades. He lost his way in the world. In his need he looked about for a Socrates but found none among his contemporaries. Then he requested the gods to change him into one. But now--he who had been so proud of being an Alcibiades was so humiliated and humbled by the gods' favor that, just when he received what he could be proud of, he felt inferior to all.

It is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do.

The great can never do harm when grasped in their greatness.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.

You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

Teach us by your lives.

Life always take on the character of its motive.

Promise me you'll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …' 'I always do, Mrs Weasley,' said Harry. 'I like a quiet life, you know me.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.