“Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones”
“You can tell the character of a person by their handshake.”
“He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”
“In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.”
“She, the clear heart ed soul shall show a small crack (in heart) as clearly as the equally transparent, but dirty rogue can cleverly hide it.”
“She was beginning to realize that no amount of genius ever compensates for, nor excuses, a paucity of kindness, integrity, and unconflicted devotion.”
“Who we are usually depends on who is—or who we think is—looking at us.”
“Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. She was very showy, but she was not genuine; she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments, but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature; nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness. She was not good; she was not original; she used to repeat sounding phrases from books; she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own. She advocated a high tone of sentiment, but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her”
“At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don t call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule.”
“The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.”
“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 thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. But isn t it true that an author can write only about himself?”
“It s not the volume of your voice that matters, it s the content.”
“The blueprint of life is your character and this in turn is the sum total of your habits - make them serve you.”
“The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. - Earl Warren”
“I will do the Very Best that I can---as Best I know......Because I am cut off of that kind of cloth....”
“Seeking success builds character.”
“The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”