Quotes About Character

Free will allows infinite numbers of human stories to be written in which a personal you is the main character. The sciences, on the other hand, hard or soft, assume that purpose and free will are hogwash; given enough data, everything will be seen as explainable, predetermined, and predictable.

Poverty can't make you miserable; only a bad character and a weak spirit can do that.

This book scratches an old itch. Despite being the level of government that is closest to the people and has so much impact on our quality of life, most people don't know too much about how their local governments operate and even less about what it's like to manage a city or county. Occasionally, a city manager character appears in a novel, movie, or TV show but almost always in a mocking or denigrating fashion that belies the professionalism that is more the norm.

Virtue is admirable, but boring.

He was smiling at the blimp, happier than Cirocco had ever seen him.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

Hey Pilgrim, you forgot your pop-gun

Never apologize, it's a sign of weakness

Never say sorry - it's a sign of weakness

Pilgrim, hold it, I said you, Valance, you pick it up

What is it now, pilgrim… your conscience?

Never apologize, mister, it's a sign of weakness.

I would like to be remembered, well ... the Mexicans have a phrase, "Feo fuerte y formal". Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

And great men do great good, or else great harm.

Paul's contentment derives from God. It's not a matter of human strength of character; it's a matter of human weakness transfigured by the astonishing sufficiency of God. Contentment is that exercise of faith in which we accept the sufficiency of God. It's not feeling all right; it's not mastery of circumstance. It's the fruit of the conversion of our lives to the grace and goodness of God.

What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no use But only to show his teeth.

What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.

Deeds, not words shall speak to me.