Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Our true worth lies in our character, not in our accomplishments

The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft...

You're a real cowboy.

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. { "The hidden sides of his character" }

Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and...

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that...

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

Life is not about having perfect days. Life is not about handling days perfectly. Life is about perfecting one's character through the having and handling of every given day.

The purpose of education should be character - building.

Good men are often more practical than pretty. Andrius just happens to be both.

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of...

He may not look as tall or strong as some, but he is worth more than all of them. - Lysa

There seemed to be that same fierce quest after truth, the same unafraid penetration, the same feeling that character is beauty, no matter how sordid it may appear.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or don't have. Bigfoot understood that there are two types of people in the world: those who do what they say they're going to do - and everyone else.

Suppose we save this woman. Save the woman, Mr. Fogg! I have yet twelve hours to spare; I can devote them to that. Why, you are a man of heart! Sometimes, replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; when I have...

"Igor?" said Moist. "You have an Igor?" "Oh, yes," said Hubert. "That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr. Lipspick....

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you...

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like...

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Have you got any soul? a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can...

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author...

A compliment about one's nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one's appearance doesn't mean overly much because there is no choice involved...

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

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...