Quotes About Character

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found.

It is easier for the leaders to reject the prophecy and the prophet, particularly if there are some unresolved character issues in the life of the prophet. It provides a legitimate reason to reject the word in the eyes of the people, though not necessarily in the eyes of the Lord. Prophecy has a way of testing our true motives.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

The main characters in a novel must necessarily have some kinship to the author, they come out of his body as a child comes from the womb, then the umbilical cord is cut, and they grow into independence. The more the author knows of his own character the more he can distance himself from his invented characters and the more room they have to grow in.

There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.

When you're not a good man yourself you respect a good man. Now I'd prefer to die with a good man around. A good man teaches a lot of nonsense and a bad man teaches truth [...] I'm not the one to teach the boy nonsense.

A writer's knowledge of himself, realistic and unromantic, is like a store of energy on which he must draw for a lifetime: one volt of it properly directed will bring a character to life.

Mr Rennit was angry because he had not been given time to set his scene, and he could so obviously not afford his anger. There was a kind of starved nobility in the self-sacrifice of his rage.

If I seem to the reader a somewhat static character he should appreciate the long conditioning of my career before retirement.

I was no longer on my dignity.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

General Thé is not a very controlled character.' 'And bombs aren't for boys from Boston. Who is Pyle's chief, Heng?' 'I have the impression that Mr Pyle is very much his own master.' 'What is he? O.S.S.?' 'The initial letters are not very important. I think now they are different.

The things that dominate our imagination determine our lives and our character. Therefore it behoves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

And how can anyone say they are strong if they have never been tested? It's easy to be strong when everything is going well. It's when things go to hell that true character emerges.

You may think your tribute is paid in secret in the recesses of your heart, but it will out. We are a curious species when it comes to worship. The things that dominate our imagination determine our lives and our character. Therefore it behoves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. - Kyril Sindermann

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

He taught me that the measure of a man lies not in what he says but what he does.

Me ha parecido ver a Killer Croc. Es... sólo es una gabardina verde. -Un error muy comprensible. El otro día confundí a una formidable monja con el Pingüino, señor.

Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.

The Benefactors could not have known our character before you sent your ships into the Earth's system…

But ingenuity is often indistinguishable from foolish play, and foolish play is one of those traits I find most endearing about humanity.