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Quotes About Character

You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.
~ Erin Hunter
Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.
~ Erin McCarthy
Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.
~ Erin McCarthy
Mi abuelo es un hombre de bien. Me pregunto si yo seré un hombre de bien. Me pregunto si habrá hombres de bien en mi generación.
~ Erlend Loe
You know, sort of like Obi-Wan, watching over Luke while he was growing up on Tatooine." "You're a bold-faced liar like Obi-Wan, too!" I shot back. "That's for sure." Ray's smile vanished, and his eyes narrowed. "And you're being a whiny little bitch, just like Luke!
~ Ernest Cline
One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character?
~ Ernest Cline
Pee-wee Herman yelling through a vocoder
~ Ernest Cline
Her instinct was always to act out of kindness and generosity instead of self-interest. She was a better person than me, and I was a better person when I was around her.
~ Ernest Cline
That was just one side of me. The side I chose to show you.
~ Ernest Cline
There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.
~ Ernie Banks
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
~ Ernie Banks
Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!
~ Ernst Junger
The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, and to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented, and the characteristic issue, the crucial concern, is whether it will be credited or discredited.
~ Erving Goffman
Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
I love Mr. Darcy
~ Erynn Mangum
Ain't no glory made from being dependable.
~ Esi Edugyan
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
~ Esmeralda Santiago
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.
~ Estee Lauder
You can't just trust to luck you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
~ Estelle Parsons
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
~ Esther Williams
Ehud was tall and strong and was always quiet. Lots of people thought that Ehud was quiet because he was stupid. That wasn't true. He may not have been the smartest kid on the block, but he was no moron either.
~ Etgar Keret
Kids who get Bart Simpson dolls too easily grow up to be punks who steal from candy stores, because they're used to getting whatever they want the easy way.
~ Etgar Keret