Quotes About Character

Passions may do good by chance, but there can be no merit but in the conquest of them.

Be a girl of duty not a girl of beauty because beauty spoil ur duty while duty make u beauty.

Gentleman?v odÄ›v není žádný pÃ…â"¢evlek. Oble?ení, které nosí, obléká proto, že se v nÄ›m cítí dobÃ…â"¢e, a nikoliv aby na nÄ›koho udÄ›lal dojem. Skute?ný gentleman se podÃ…â"¢ídí pouze daným okolnostem.

Edmund Burke, anglický filozof 18. století, napsal jednou svému pÃ…â"¢íteli: "Král sice pozvedne gentlemana do Å¡lechtického stavu, ale gentlemana z nÄ›j neudÄ›lá

Jedno je jasné: Å¡aty z muže gentlemana neudÄ›lají, ale naopak opravdový gentleman z?stane gentlemanem i bez nákladného odÄ›vu. Usuzovat z toho, že vnÄ›jÅ¡í dojem není d?ležitý, by vÅ¡ak byla chyba.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

I am always studying character. Everyone I meet is a new study.

what has not changed is the sense of empowerment that grows when working people are treated not as "employees," but as "owners" who share responsibility for defining the scope and character of their jobs.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

If, however, we try to draw these mental images, we quickly realize that we don't have nearly enough information about shape, proportion, contour, or texture to do the job with much precision or character.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Charakter, das ist eine Zeitfrage. Er hält soundso lange, genau wie ein Handschuh. Es gibt gute, die halten lange. Aber sie halten nicht ewig.

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!" Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El regalo más grande que les puedes dar a los demás es el ejemplo de tu propia vida" (Bertolt Brecht)

O du schwacher Gut gesinnter, aber schwacher Mensch! Wo da Not ist, denkt er, gibt es keine Güte!

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

Marriage differs from all ordinary contracts in the extreme difficulty of dissolving it—a difficulty arising from the ecclesiastical character which has been imposed upon it, and from the fact that it has been looked upon as a religious bond instead of as a civil contract.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

It's what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us." Saving CeeCee Honeycut

often women aren't allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn't that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.

I learned that a stiff test for friendship is: "Would she be pleasant to have t.b. with?" Unfortunately, too many people, when you try separating them from their material possessions and any and all activity, turn out to be like cheap golf balls. You unwind and unwind and unwind but you never get to the pure rubber core because there isn't any.