Quotes About Character

Remember, a person's character is not only judged by the company he or she keeps but also by the company he or she avoids.

If you want to build a positive attitude, then associate with people of high moral character and read books that lead you to positive thinking.

Intellectual education influences the head and values-based education influences the heart.

We may cultivate, for example, our reputation as a sincere and virtuous practitioner, instead of simply practicing sincerely and nurturing our virtues

Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up.

Building character is like making bread—you have to mix it little by little, step by step, and moderate temperature is needed. You know yourself quite well, and you know how much temperature you need. You know exactly what you need. But if you get too excited, you will forget how much temperature is good for you, and you will lose your own way. This is very dangerous.

The enlightened person is some perfect, desirable character, for himself and for others.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Lately..... all a girl desires from a guy is a GOOD SOUL(Standard of Ur Living)!!!!!

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

There is a sense of self, of character, and of personal self-worth and kindness and hopefulness and embrace that is characteristic of such people, educated and noneducated alike. My

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

Look, I know Phillip since he was five years old -- and even then you'd have thought he was six foot four and bulletproof, he was that mouthy. And bad? My Jesus Christ.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

La gente no nace buena o mala. Quizá nace con tendencias hacia un lado u otro, pero es el modo en que vives tu vida lo que importa. Y la gente a la que conoces.

Be good, my dears, and if you can't be good don't do it in front of witnesses!

The formation of Stalin's character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.

You're too cute, Katinka, for a historian.

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.