Quotes about Character
Chance planned to live in such a way that his son would grow up to be a strong, wise, honorable, faithful man. And the only way Chance knew to teach that was to be such a man himself.
— Mary Connealy
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
— Ayn Rand
And then there was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.
— Barack Obama
"There are things more important," he told me, "than getting reelected."
— Barack Obama
There can be no greater spiritual accomplishment than to come through brutal trials and then look back and see that mean times did not render us mean spirits.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
— Barbara Kingsolver
He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If his guilt made him a tyrant before men, it made him like a child before his God. Not a helpless or pleading child, but a petulant one, the type of tough boy who's known too little love and is quick to blame others for his mistakes.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Whole phases of her children's lives, these passions that had seemed to be their purest marrow, had faded away one after another. And character persisted.
— Barbara Kingsolver
people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
— Stephen Covey
Inside-Out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives
— Stephen Covey