Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
Albert EinsteinTag: honesty integrity character
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan DidionTag: life self-respect responsibility character
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.
Anaïs NinTag: empowerment self-control courage responsibility character destiny self-improvement
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Harry TrumanI'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.
Terry GoodkindThere is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
Charles BaxterTag: politics mistakes villainy character deniability passive-voice
In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.
Mike DooleyTag: character
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: experience meat character
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
Charlotte BrontëTag: love empowerment gender men women freedom identity integrity romance self-determination independence self-awareness character flaws realism image ideal-woman
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
Ludwig FeuerbachTag: inspirational truth devil character falsehood angel
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