Character Quotes - Page 9

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.

Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.

When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.

First character, then ability.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character

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 an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand."
"Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it...

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

We are the sum total of our choices.

Little choices determine habit;
Habit carves and molds character
Which makes the big decisions.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.

Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths.