“A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.”
“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.”
“Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.”
“I go on the presumption that everyone s full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
“End of Construction. Thank you for your patience. Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham s grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.”
“My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.”
“Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.”
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.”
“There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.”
“Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he s doing very little wrong.”
“And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless And with one word of truth or treachery He will save or damn the earth Because he is mad and sane Cold and passionate Lost and found”
“A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.”
“When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.”
“…I m sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don t feel that it s what it should be. It s full of flaws. So s everybody s, said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. Mine s cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or tother, and would go on developing in that line.”
“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.”
“Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.”