Quotes about Character

My grandmother knew nothing about sports. She still didn't even when I went to the NBA. She never really cared too much about sports. She only cared about me being a good person.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

My dad's about character and bipartisanship and something greater than yourself and believing in this country and believing in the fact that we as Americans can still come together, and that's something I grew up in and feeds me every day.

I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds

He has got no good red blood in his body, said Sir James. No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parenthesis, said Mrs. Cadwallader.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.