Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline.

A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that can define him instantly and completely.

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

What character with any sense of aesthetics desires a cradle-to-grave account of himself? That’s so passé, so nineteenth-century.

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

If I could store any character quality in a cookie jar I d store patience Chocolate-chip patience cookies And I d eat them all at one sitting

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

A leader is not authenticated by title or position, but by character and influence, most important by leading among the pack and not in front.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

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

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.