Quotes About Character

He that would build lastingly must lay his foundation low. The proud man, like the early shoots of a new-felled coppice, thrusts out full of sap, green in leaves, and fresh in colour, but bruises and breaks with every wind, is nipped with every little cold, and, being top-heavy, is wholly unfit for use. Whereas the humble man retains it in the root, can abide the winter?s killing blast, the ruffling concussions of the wind, and can endure far more than that which appears so flourishing.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

He is the kind of man we call mahogany trunk because the trunk of the mahogany tree is so strong that it never bends in a storm. I am not a storm. I am the thing that obeys.

Of the House of Representatives, Rep. James G. Blaine later remarked, "There is no place where so little deference is paid to reputation previously acquired, or to eminence won outside; no place where so little consideration is shown for the feelings or the failures of beginners. What a man gains, he gains by sheer force of his own character,

La misma acción puede ser horrible hoy y estupenda mañana, según quién la lleve a cabo; en la personalización continua del español, la calidad del hombre es la que determina la gravedad del pecado y no al revés.

La desesperanza y la soledad no se comparten en la literatura con una multitud de otros seres, porque no existe, no existirá, el personaje masivo

No queremos que nos encasillen en una de nuestras facetas, sobre todo si es de las peores. Queremos que nos den la oportunidad de demostrar que no nos correspondemos con lo que hicimos durante un día malo, que somos capaces de cosas mejores.

Igual que el hábito no hace al monje, el motivo tampoco hace al emprendedor.

El hábito no hace al monje y el filósofo no es un título, es una forma necia de ser.

Never listen to fools who dis Jane Eyre as being a story about a girl who gets her mean man. This is a character who gets what she wants and lives on her own terms by having moral fortitude, intelligence, courage, imagination and a will of iron. And that is one hell of a checklist. Imagine Charlotte Brontë writing this book in 1847. What a powerful story for women living at that time!

What would Jane do?

The man who talketh much and never acteth will not be held in reputation by anyone.

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

Whenever we are sure that we are among the righteous, we immediately find ourselves among the arrogant.

When Efuru went home, Ajanupu could not help admiring her character. "She is a woman among women. I like the way she is carrying her burden. She still loves that imbecile husband of hers and she is going in search of him.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.

Nevertheless, even in the United States, there are two questions, and only two, that from the beginning have endangered political order. And what are these two questions? That of slavery and that of tariffs; that is, precisely the only two questions in which, contrary to the general spirit of this republic, law has taken the character of a plunderer.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are

Les "cœurs sur la main" n'ont pas d'histoire;

Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.