Character Quotes - Page 2

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

When they came to shoe the horses the beetle stretched out his leg.

English Proverb

It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe

Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

William Butler Yeats

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

He was not of an age but for all time.

As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.

Robert Whittington

At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Honi soit qui mal y pense.)

Motto for the Order of the Garter

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good but not religious-good.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

Benjamin Disraeli

His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up

William Shakespeare

And say to all the world "This was a man!"

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

I can't believe that out of 100 000 sperm you were the quickest.

I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

Book of Common Prayer

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Enjoy being you. Have fun. And be different.

Hard times define one's character.

Be truthful.Be presentable.Be tactical.Be profitable.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.

He was all of those things, of course, but none of those things.

Her flesh was powdery and voluptuously weary, as if tenderized by all the different beds and arms in which she had lain. Her face was as soft as the pulpy flash of an overripe banana, her breasts like two tiny bunches of grapes. She exuded a certain seedy charm, a poetry of premature corruption and decay. She breathed the air as if it burned her palate, baking her small, hot, whorish mouth. It was as if she were sucking a sweet or slurping champagne.

Dezső Kosztolányi

I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books

Christina Tetreault

Character is what we do when no one else is watching"~R. Alan Woods [2012]

(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."-David Levithan (Every Day)

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

Elizabeth Goudge

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

Arthur Conan Doyle

...I've been ripped off, lied to, slandered, gossiped about slapped, falsely accused, and had my truths not believed. I've had my heart broken, had my pride stomped on, witnessed unforgivable acts, and heard words that hurt so much I withed that they would not replay in my head, but they did. In all these moments--some tear-soaked, some life-defining, but all character-building moments--I have felt vulnerable. And I believe these feelings of vulnerability--when a person feels scared and alone and overwhelmed and pissed off, wen the sting of unfairness bites deep--while miserable to live through, are the basis for writing compelling fiction.

Jessica Page Morrell

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

Would you have references?""I'm awfully sorry but I haven't. I just arrived in New York, and don't know a soul. Except you." I smiled but she didn't smile back. She stood hesitating, and I said, "It's true that I'm an escaped convict, an active counterfeiter, and occasional murderer. And I howl during the full of the moon. But I'm neat.

Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You’re giving a gift. You’re helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They’ll become real.

James Chartrand

No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.

A person’s authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his interpersonal relationships.

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

Christopher Hitchens

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

Character is beyond obligation. You could kick your shoes off at the door, flick your cigarete butts onto the sidewalk or talk only in slang, those things are forgivable if you have character

Novala Takemoto

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Melika Dannese Lux

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

Sophocles

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

Timothy J. Keller

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

Michael Ondaatje

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