Quotes About Character

A man is what he is, not what he used to be. —Yiddish proverb

She began to notice his servant's heart, his humility, and his leadership. This attraction felt different from her prior experiences of liking guys. "Before it had always been, 'Here's the guy I want!' But this time I thought, 'Here's a man I could follow.

Look for, and work on becoming, a man or woman who, as a single, seeks God wholeheartedly, putting Him before anything else. Don't worry about impressing the opposite sex. Instead, strive to please and glorify God. Along the way you'll catch the attention of people with the same priorities.

Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is...how we respond to what happens to us.

No element of Mr. Lincoln's character," declared his colleague Henry Whitney, "was so marked, obvious and ingrained as his mysterious and profound melancholy." His law partner William Herndon said, "His melancholy dripped from him as he walked.

die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."   Late

because of them, he worked all the harder in his thirties and forties to "make himself," emotionally as well as materially, and go on to do the special work he longed for. Perseverance and forbearance became core aspects of Lincoln's character, and he would one day give the same advice his law partner Stephen Logan gave him, that what matters is whether a person "keeps up his labors and efforts until middle life.

I would rather be strong at heart than strong at mind

So, why do you write these strong female characters? Because you're still asking me that question.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

We are who we pretend to be.

who value a handshake more than an unreadable fancy signature,

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart. —The 14th Dalai Lama

Callarse no es agradable, exige carácter, pero tú no entiendes eso, tú, con la misma arrogancia de todos los demás periodistas que en el mundo han sido, tú te creíste que el mundo no podía prescindir de la vida de Sara.

En el mundo existen millones de personas con talento que viven sus vidas en silenciosa desesperación, atrapados en oficios de mierda. ¿Por qué unos van en metro y otros en su avión privado? Es una cuestión de carácter. De querer realmente lo que deseamos

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

Orson Welles, el genio malvadísimo de la cara blanda que se burlaba de la paz suiza, de los relojes cucú, que no tenía moral ni escrúpulos para la penicilina.

She is not only beautiful on the outside, but inwards as well. When she is old and not so lovely, she will be well loved. But you! Your beauty is on the outside alone. If it were taken away from you, only a querulous, evil-minded, vicious woman would remain.

The unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit is of great worth in God's sight.

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.