Quotes about Character

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

Fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you. Revere the

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

The best revenge is to be unlike your enemy.

It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.

Honesty is the best policy

As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.

But of all the bonds of fellowship, there is none more noble, none more powerful than when good men of congenial character are joined in intimate friendship.

Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.

Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows them to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.