Quotes About Character

Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness.

There are five traps for a general: recklessness, cowardice, incendiary character, refinement of honor and the care for his own people

The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness.

Watch what people do, don't listen to what they say.

one should stick to one's principles and never compromise them just to do the done thing!

The gifts of the Spirit can be recognized by their fruits.

do that to a future hero?" She

Everyone made mistakes. The measure of a person was what happened afterward. Later

She decided she would find out all she could about Bettina then kill off a character just like her in her next book. The death would be grisly, she promised herself. Slow and painful.

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

Being a good man has nothing to do with how many touchdowns you score. But maybe, rather, how you play the game.

Authenticity is not something you have—it's something you choose. In

I'm in love. Don't ask me how it's possible. It's just not in character; my nightmare-ridden, stubborn, melancholy character. And yet, it's happened.

Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of character.

Acting is all about finding truth in made-up situations. I know that seems like a paradox, that's why it's hard. An actor's job is to be completely honest while pretending to be someone else, in a place that's dressed up to look like somewhere else, while telling a story that isn't true.

He doesn't speak of love. It's just something he does. Something he is. Love is the something he does while other folks sit around talking about it.

the way you spend each day adds up to the way you spend your life.

Just being a good person doesn't necessarily entitle you to a good life.

Like most American women, you do not understand style. It does not mean parading yourself around in the latest fashion, but simply presenting your very best self to the world. Contrary to your belief, this has absolutely nothing to do with physical attributes.

When something is hard, but you do it anyway and get stronger because you did it, that's building character.

Brother Cadfael was invented by Ellis Peters," I explained. "He's a fictional twelfth-century monk who grows herbs and solves murders.

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

The next day Mrs Honeyfoot told her husband that John Segundus was exactly what a gentleman should be, but she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted.