Quotes About Character

I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

Epictetus: "Look not for any greater harm than this: destroying the trustworthy, self-respecting well-behaved man within you.

the sine qua non of a leader has lain not in his chesslike grasp of issues and the options they portend, not in his style of management, not in his skill at processing information, but in his having the character, the heart, to deal spontaneously, honorably, and candidly with people, perplexities, and principles.

Do what you will, reputation is at least as fickle as your station in life. Others decide what your reputation is.

don't let "reputation" get mixed up with your moral purpose or your will power; they are important. Make sure "reputation" is in that box in the bottom drawer marked "matters of indifference

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

He wants your friendship, and for it he'll pay you in virtues you can use all your life.

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.

For scores of millions of Americans, Clinton's "caring" was more important than his lying.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

Rather we must seek out9 the good things peculiar to the good, and give the widest berth to the evils peculiar to evil men.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

There is no occasion to trample upon the meanest reptile, nor to sneak to the greatest prince. Insolence and baseness are equally unmanly.

Abraham Lincoln, who was about to meet some visiting clergy to accept a petition, was shining his shoes when a cabinet minister came into his office for a quick answer to a question. The cabinet secretary asked in surprise, "Mr. President, are you shining your own shoes?" "Whose shoes would I shine?" replied Lincoln dryly.

Leadership sometimes demands more than verbiage. It requires visible acts.

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.

our thoughts become our actions, our actions become our habits, our habits become our character, and our character becomes our destiny.

Leadership is simply character in action.

labors of leadership and love are character issues. Patience, kindness, humility, selflessness, respectfulness, forgiveness, honesty, commitment. These character building blocks,

amar não é como você se sente em relação aos outros, mas como se comporta em relação a eles.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.