Quotes About Character

You can train weapons and fighting techniques, but you can't train that kind of courage and willpower. You either have it or you don't.

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: 'i am not too concerned with what i'm going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.

It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.

Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, "Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds.

But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his character, how am I to persuade you out of a war? It would be suicide for Kildenree to war on Bayern and butchery for Bayern to attack Kildenree. If you don't believe me, then send me back. Or if you don't trust me to leave, I'll return to my little room on the west wall and tend your geese, and you can be sure that on my watch no thieves will touch my flock.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Sometimes it seems my identity's a matter of opinion

I mean, without the antagonist, there would be no story! It'd be like: 'Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to be loved, so she met a prince and got married and lived Happily Ever After, The End'? That's not a story; that's a bumper sticker.

I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about.

Sometimes doing the right thing was hard… and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.

1 Pardon this highly unusual footnote, but I must break the Narrator's "fourth wall" to explain that this story will be "tricksy" in more than one way. Kitty Cheshire does not like being narrated. She seems to be aware of my watching her, and she resists. At times her thoughts and feelings squirm away from my inspection. I shall do my best, however, to narrate a completely true story about Ever After's most elusive character.

Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

What's wrong with you?" Nika asks Madoc. He responds, "I'm an incurable asshole.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

You were created to make God recognizable to others—to show others what God is like.

Goethe said, "Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

In the end it is the quality and character, a leader's understanding of how to be, not how to do, that determines the performance, the results. —FRANCES HESSELBEIN

Why are some people mean and some people nice?" "I don't rightly know...But my job is to teach all of you to be the best people you can be...

From a character's mother in THE ROMANCE READER'S GUIDE TO LIFE: "Resentment is the poison you drink yourself hoping it will kill the other fellow.

Money does not establish class. Behavior does

There's a little bit of a bitch in every woman - and a lot in every man. - Joan Crawford

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

If we love God with all of our heart, mind, and strength, then we will spend all of our time letting his love, Word, and presence build our character in order to protect and advance the relationship.