Quotes About Character

Integrity is what you do when no one is looking. LIVING YOUR YOGA: To practice yoga, telling the truth is not enough. We need to practice not lying. Today live with integrity by not lying to yourself about one important thing in your life.

She was strong, Winnie Bollash. As strong a woman as he knew. Capable-like. And the most vulnerable creature he'd ever met.

The Sea knows her Creator and she gives Him glory every moment of every day just by being all that He created her to be - reflecting Him, being as much like Him as she can be. Sometimes she is gentle, calm and caressing. Sometimes she is powerful, strong and angry. Always she is her true self and a reflection of Him.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands.

Kohtalokas luonteenpuute. Kasvot joita voi lukea kuin avointa kirjaa.

Cruelty, like lying, repels instantly and easily because it is 'ugly.' It is a vice that disfigures human characters, not a transgression of a divine or human rule.

yourself in such a manner?

One acts with dignity," he said, "as much as one may. One compromises only as much as one must, and still remain oneself. And one keeps one's pride, even if one must keep it in secret, where only God can see.

He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person.

And a weak person will find it easier to take what someone else has earned rather than risk working hard and achieving something on his own.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Eine Eigenschaft war etwas, auf das man mit dem Finger zeigen konnte, wenn man sich selber meinte. [...] Durch den Erwerb von Eigenschaften gelang noch dem Dümmsten der schwierige Akt der Selbsterschaffung.

Schon ein paar Tage konzentrierter Beobachtung genügen, um die Vorlieben und Abneigungen, Gewohnheiten und Empfindlichkeiten, Stimmtonarten und Farbschemata der Haut zu kennen, die sich um die Standarte eines Personennamens versammeln und miteinander ein Wesen formen, das 'Mensch' genannt wird, so wie große Mengen von Fischen 'Schwarm' heißen.

A virtue is a disposition which is central to the person, to whom he or she is, a way we standardly think of character.

any breaches

All in all, this shows that not every bad person dresses immodestly, and not every well-dressed person is holy, but it merely clarifies the pagan characteristics of public nudity and the Christian roots of reverencing the human body.

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

A man who breaks a promise has a weak place in his net. Sometimes he'll get by with it, but sometime he'll lose the catch of a lifetime.

to contradict him. "You know how she is

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

Sabes, padre?, creo que lo que de verdad cuenta no es lo que uno diga que es sino cómo se comporta. Así que no importa qué etiqueta quieras ponerme, sino cómo soy con mis semejantes

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.