- “I’m not saying that I think one man is better than the other. I’m not saying that either is kinder or wiser or more ambitious, more thoughtful, confident, or able. But the fact is that when I’m with the one, comfort settles into my bones. I feel calm around him, as if the sun is smiling down on me and the world has suddenly become a sweet, safe place to be. I feel good about life―about myself. And it’s hard not to want to be near someone who, just by their very nature, makes you feel that way.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
- In short term games, skills are more important than character. In long term games, character dominates. Johnny Uzan
- “Necessity, very often, teach us things that we seldom imagine doing in life.” ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
- You become more attractive when you don’t need love. You become richer when you don’t need money. You become more convincing when you don’t need to impress. @orangebook_
- Discipline is the root of all good qualities. Jocko Wilink
- Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished through them. Epictetus (Enchiridion)
- “They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.” ― Robert Frost
- It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, doing as you say you would do.” ― Roy Bennett
- “The shallow seeks witness of their good deeds, but those with character seek only to do good with their deeds.” ― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family
- Men of few words are the best men. William Shakespeare
- “It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.” ― Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- “We are all part of the same rainbow. We are all reflections of each other. As unique and diverse as we are in character and skills, the source of all creation is as multidimensional as we are.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “What is animal, what is human, can’t be determined by appearance, it’s only determined by action.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable
- “There was nowhere I had to be tomorrow, yet something kept pushing me to hurry and make up lost time. But lost to what? Who finds time that is lost? Time is never lost, we give it away, dump it out, character is everything, and I had not wanted to withhold myself anymore, that was all.” ― Arthur Miller
- “[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.” ― Aristophanes, The Knights
- “Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character.” ― Ken Poirot
- “The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.” ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
- “True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Michel de Montaigne
- “Once your character is poured with vigor and your attitude radiates confidence, there is no power in any external force to have any form of authority over you.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon
- The smarter you get, the less you react when it isn’t worth it. @orangebook_
- Human reason grows rich by self-conquest. Publius Syrus
- “Justice is neither MALE nor FEMALE. Justice is the CHARACTER and NATURE of God.” ― Ephantus Mwenda, The Girl From America
- When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people’s opinion, freer, more real. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Having character means you know how to respond so you can keep your inner peace. Maxime Lagacé
- Most people say that it’s the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein
- “Nothing matures a Man like RESPONSIBILITIES,Nothing humbles him like MISSED OPPORTUNITIES,What makes him are his CHOICES,And nothing changes him like LOVE.Nothing defines a Man like his CHARACTER,Nothing teaches him like his EXPERIENCE,What drives him is his VISION,And nothing weakens him like BETRAYAL.Nothing scares a Man like losing his EGO,Nothing pursues him like his PASSION,What interests him is his GAME,And nothing intoxicates him like his DESIRES.But above all, NOTHING FAVOURS A MAN LIKE FINDING A GOOD WOMAN.” ― Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within
- If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. Robert South