Character Quotes - Page 3

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.

That wasn't love; that was stupidity.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - Only more sure of all I thought was true.

You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours.

A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

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

The best of your life could be the rest of your life, if you decide it will be so.

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

I have a bad reputation because I play evil from the outside but if you get closer I hide heaven inside me❤ ❤