Character Quotes - Page 13

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.

I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.

If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.

Anthony Liccione

Character is not made by crisis. It is only exhibited.

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succ

Stendhal

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths.

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.

Mohammed Ali Bapir

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Bobby Orr

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.

In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.

Omar Nelson Bradley

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Character is plot, plot is character.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're a pain in the ass.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Wallace Stegner

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others… In this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference. You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.

Gordon B. Hinckley

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

Flannery O'Connor

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world.

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.

Lloyd Alexander

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

William Arthur Ward

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Aristotle

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Dwight L. Moody

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Patrick Rothfuss

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Cassandra Clare

Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character)I would be true, for there are those who trust me;I would be pure, for there are those who care;I would be strong, for there are those who suffer;I would be brave, for there is much to dare.I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless;I would be giving, and forget the gift;I would be humble, for I know my weakness;I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Charles de Gaulle

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Theodore Roosevelt

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

Megan Whalen Turner

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To measure the man, measure his heart.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- (Miranda, I:2)

William Shakespeare

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca

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

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