Quotes About Character

The left no longer makes arguments about policies' effectiveness. Their only argument is character assassination

Whereas modern systems of morality focus far more on whether given actions are good or evil, ancient ethical systems worried less about rules for action, and more about making men and women virtuous people—people capable of fulfilling their telos as human beings, and utilizing reason and character to carry out complex moral equations.

point out that throwing around accusations without evidence makes your opponent a piece of garbage

The third rule underscores the Japanese proverb that adversity makes a jewel of you.

perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people

It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.

Christ did not exalt himself in a world full of self-promotion; rather he stepped down and served others, which most, especially the elite, in the Greco-Roman world would have seen as despicable, not admirable.

Loving talk is cheap when costly deeds are required.

L'onestà politica non è altro che la capacità politica.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Parece buen muchacho ese Pablo.

Desgraciada era entonces España; pero tenía hombres

Esto se acabó. Es cuanto por ahora podemos decir de las personas que parecen buenas y no lo son.

Las desgracias, que son lecciones y avisos de la Providencia, doman al más soberbio, y suavizan al más atrabiliario.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.

No creo que nadie sea bueno o malo del todo. Somos una mezcla y actuamos de acuerdo a las circunstancias en que nos encontramos.

Brenda Ruttledge —dijo Quirke—. Una de las enfermeras.

Conor Carrington,

Maggie, la criada,

Circumstances are quite unimportant, character is everything; in vain we break with outside things or people; we cannot break with ourselves. We change our circumstances, but we take with us into each new situation the torment we had hoped to leave behind, and as we cannot shake ourselves any better by a change of scene, we simply find that we have added remorse to regrets and misdeeds to sufferings.

Las circunstancias significan poca cosa,el carácter en cambio lo es todo;en vano rompemos con las cosas y los seres ajenos; no podemos romper con nosotros mismos. Cambiamos la situación, pero arrastramos con nosotros el tormento del que esperábamos librarnos; y como nadie puede corregirse simplemente desplazándose, uno se encuentra con que no ha hecho otra cosa que añadir remordimientos a las penas y pecados a los sufrimientos.

Could if be that there is something dubious about hope and that when hope has disappeared from a man's life his life assumes a more severe and positive character? Could it be that life seems so much the more real when all illusions have vanished, just as the contours of a mountain ridge appear more clearly on the horizon when the clouds are gone?

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.