Quotes About Character

After you die, you wear what you are.

The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them

a bloke can have six cars and holidays in the south of France every year and it's still what's inside him what counts.

What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by reaching them. —Zig Ziglar

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong and unified, effective and unique. Immortality knows nothing of morality or immorality, of good or evil; it measures only work and strength; it demands from a man not purity but unity. Here, morality is nothing; intensity, all.

To be free of vanity or pride, these perhaps the gravest of all indulgences.

He studies virtues, vices, flaws and merits, the wisdom and puerility of others.

When one is old, one has only to look at a person to know him through and through. I know a good man when I see one. My wife taught me that, God rest her soul …

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Siente, precisamente ahora que su poder exterior toca a su fin, que en su interior comienza algo nuevo y grande que sin aquella prueba no habría sido posible. «Sólo en la desgracia se sabe en verdad quién se es»;

Come tutte le nature caparbie non aveva il senso del ridicolo.

The strikingly broad, almost athletically powerful shoulders unfortunately reflected the character of his playing too, for this Mr. McConnor was one of those self-obsessed big wheels who feel personally diminished by a defeat in even the most trivial game.

Good fortune and bad are both fine tests of a man's character. Mesmer had not been boastful or presumptuous in the days of his fame, and now, when the world had suddenly forgotten him, he was modest and stoical. Far from making any attempt to attract attention to himself, when an endeavor was made to recall him into the limelight he rejected the overture.

Erst im Unglück weiß man wahrhaft, wer man ist.

Mark Baker, Mary's father, was a man of very strict views, his head being as hard as his fist. "You could not move him any more than you could move old Kearsarge," his neighbors were wont to say of him — Kearsarge being a nearby mountain. This obstinacy, this indomitable will, was certainly handed down to Mary, the seventh child, born July 16, 1821.

Mrs Smiling's character was firm and her tastes civilized. Her method of dealing with wayward human nature when it insisted on obtruding its grossness upon her scheme of life was short and effective; she pretended things were not so: and usually, after a time, they were not. Christian Science is perhaps a larger organization, but seldom so successful.

What we describe as a person's "character" is built up to a considerable extent from the material of sexual excitations and is composed of instincts that have been fixed since childhood, of constructions achieved by means of sublimation, and of other constructions, employed for effectively holding in check perverse impulses which have been recognized as being unutilizable. (1905

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.