Quotes About Character

It mattered not what color your skin was on the outside, but rather what the condition was of your heart and mind inside.

Proverbs 16:32, which says that mightier is the man who can control his temper than the man who can conquer a city.

He can feel it rising in him, this powerful if not quite choate sense of how to live a strong and decent life.

SIR P: Sir, calumnies are answer'd best with silence.

intelligence has nothing to do with IQ or SAT scores. It simply means being patient, disciplined, and eager to learn;

It takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.

Many men do not beat their wives, even though the law allows it and the church encourages it, but a man gains no reputation by beating a weaker person. Æthelred had beaten Æthelflaed, but he was a weak man, and it takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.

O orgulho faz o homem, impulsiona-o, é a parede de escudos ao redor de sua reputação, e os dinamarqueses entendiam isso. Os homens morrem, diziam eles, mas a reputação não.

A man without honour has no reputation

certainly strip him of his petty

Reputation! It is the one thing that outlives us. Men die, women die, all die, but reputation lives on like the echo of a song, and men crave reputation, as they crave the heavy arm rings that mark a warrior's victories.

If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead.

Ferocity gave her a beauty that nature had denied her.

and the story had to be told again, and Sharpe felt

You take me for a fool, Douglas?" "I take you as you show yourself, John Randolph

A man without honor has no reputation

Man make a kingdom strong, not gold.

So much is expected of a king. He must be brave i battle, wise i council, just in judgement.

Era nato buono, il che se ti capita è una virtù.

Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities.

Any man over forty is a scoundrel.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.