Quotes About Character

To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good.

There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't care to do it.

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes.

In spiritual issues--(by spiritual I mean: pertaining to man's consciousness)--a trader is a man who does not seek to be loved for his weaknesses or flaws, only for his virtues, and who does not grant his love to the weaknesses or the flaws of others, only to their virtues.

Money is the barometer of society's virtue.

One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person's character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul—the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices

Make no mistake about the character of mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages - and power, the power to rule you by force, has always been their only lust (John Galt)

Virtue is the giving of undeserved.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

A woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person." —QUINTILIAN

He had come a long way since his conviction, as a twenty-year-old, that honesty could not be counterfeited.

Samuel Adams was the kind of man you like to believe exists and rarely meet.

Without the character of Samuel Adams," declared John, "the true history of the American Revolution can never be written.

Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard

Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard.

People of outstanding abilities and strength of character are born at more or less regular intervals, so it's only the matter of their selection that is uneven. Their presence or absence in a particular field of inquiry can perhaps be explained by the perspectives it opens up.

People of outstanding abilities and strength of character are born at more or less regular intervals, so it's only the matter of their selection that is uneven.

You are you. Unique. Marvelous. Beautiful. Quirky. And imperfect.

We are being transformed into the very image of Christ. Whether we feel like it or not.

There is no one alive who is you-er than you!" said the brilliant Dr. Seuss.1

Kazanmak bir insan?n güçlü olduÄŸunu deÄŸil terbiyeden yoksun olduÄŸunu gösteriyordu.

Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.