Character Quotes - Page 8

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

Call me a Freak all u want really...I honestly take it as a compliment everytime. No matter how it was intended.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

David Brooks

You can’t build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,

David Brooks

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their desires, more aware of their own weaknesses, more intent on combatting the flaws in their own natures and turning weakness into strength.

David Brooks

The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

David Brooks

A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one's employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism.

Bruce Weinstein

Vision and purpose fix our character.

Kishore Bansal

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.

Ali B. Moe

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

Shannon L. Alder

It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...

Marcel Proust

It is the character of the road you travel gives you wisdom not the length of the road!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely slew it--but at fifteen it made him consider himself a great deal worse than other boys... unscrupulousness... the desire to influence people in almost every way, even for evil... a certain coldness and lack of affection, amounting sometimes to cruelty... a shifting sense of honor... an unholy selfishness... a puzzled, furtive interest in everything concerning sex.There was, also, a curious strain of weakness running crosswise through his make-up... a harsh phrase from the lips of an older boy (older boys usually detested him) was liable to sweep him off his poise into surly sensitiveness, or timid stupidity... he was a slave to his own moods and he felt that though he was capable of recklessness and audacity, he possessed neither courage, perseverance, nor self-respect.Vanity, tempered with self-suspicion if not self-knowledge, a sense of people as automatons to his will, a desire to "pass" as many boys as possible and get to a vague top of the world... with this background did Amory drift into adolescence.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateur standing had very little value in the game they were playing, a game that would presumably be her principal study for years to come. She had begun as he had, with good looks and an excitable temperament, and the rest was the result of accessible popular novels and dressing-room conversation culled from a slightly older set. Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blasé sophistication. She had lived in a larger city and had slightly an advantage in range. But she accepted his pose--it was one of the dozen little conventions of this kind of affair. He was aware that he was getting this particular favor now because she had been coached; he knew that he stood for merely the best game in sight, and that he would have to improve his opportunity before he lost his advantage. So they proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

Jerry Bridges

If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.

Parashar Pandya

You can like an immoral character because she’s interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.

Gillian Flynn

Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devotion. Everything is lost if there is no character.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes

Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

Truth needs wisdom's guidance. Wisdom prevents a hard truth from getting the best of you when an imperfect character brings out the worst in you.

Stella Payton

Don't bother about your looks, just bother about your character

Yash Bansal

Love not only transform your mental and emotional character/attitude, it also shifts your physical being, which goes thru subtle changes also. Love is POWERFUL! God is love.

Pazaria Smith

You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

Catherynne M. Valente

Don't seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone.

Bohdi Sanders

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Anne Michaels

If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you," would be understood: It would be practiced.

Ellen J. Barrier

Why don't you try something really different and be the same person two days in a row?

Reba

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosophically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation. A flight of smooth double chins led down to the dizzy depths of a still-snowy bosom veiled in snowy muslins that were held in place by a miniature portrait of the late Mr. Mingott; and around and below, wave after wave of black silk surged away over the edges of a capacious armchair, with two tiny white hands poised like gulls on the surface of the billows.

Edith Wharton

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

Ray Bradbury

Your character determines how many followers you will have.

Sunday Adelaja

A man's character is best described in his epitaph

Marilyn L Rice

If we lose our significance (character) we fall in ruin. The exploiters take over and sell freedom from fear, from guilt, from want. They excuse all corrupt actions. Collective status degenerates the human spirit.

Moxie Will

True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through.

TemitOpe Ibrahim

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.

Stephen King

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.

Stephen King

Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they’ve sold out, and the more you’re acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it’s like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity – at least that’s what they imagine.

David Lagercrantz

Heart and character have no gender, religion nor color.

Charles Spencer King

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

Tom Vanderbilt

only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home

Richard M. Nixon

Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.

Shannon L. Alder

Your consent is your character.

Shannon L. Alder

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.

H.G.Wells

It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.

Charles Dickens

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

Aryn Kyle

The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together to convince Westerners in the twentieth century that morality is the study of moral quandaries and dilemmas. Where the Greeks focused on the character of a person and asked what kind of person we should each aim to become, modern ethics focuses on actions, asking when a particular action is right or wrong. ... This turn from character ethics to quandary ethics has turned moral education away from virtues and toward moral reasoning. If morality is about dilemmas, then moral education is training in problem solving.

Jonathan Haidt

The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.

Sunday Adelaja

Even if people say that I don't have a character still I am a well known character.

Amit Abraham

Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.

Matt Chandler

Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character

Hiyamedia

You will see true character after a defeated ambition

Bangambiki Habyarimana

It is not what a man gets, But what a man is,That he should think of.He should first think of his character,And then of his condition.He that has character need have no fear of his condition.Character will draw condition after it.

H.W. Beecher (1813-1887)

Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.

Patricia Highsmith

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.

Raheel Farooq

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable but not necessarily subordinate or inferior to practice, and if our democratic aspirations are defined in such realistic and defensible terms as to admit of excellence, all these supposed antagonisms lose their force.

Richard Hofstadter

The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

Confucius

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.

Jo Walton

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

Bertolt Brecht

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