Saturday Quotations: Character

Somehow, this seemed appropriate given the my recent posts. Note that I'm a believer that actions speak louder than words. You'll see that in my characters. To me, someone of character can't be apathetic.

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
--Robert Green Ingersol

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.
--Mother Theresa

If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
--Elbert Hubbard

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
--William James

If you are not honest at all, everybody hates you, and if you are absolutely honest you get martyred.
--Don Marquis

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
--Dorothy L. Sayers

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
--Voltaire

A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'
-- Larry Wolters

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
-- Konrad Adenauer

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.
-- Bodie Thoene

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
-- Lew Wallace

Character does count. For too long we have gotten along in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. For me character is simple. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking.
-- J.C. Watts

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.
-- Alexander Woollcott

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
-- Robert Freeman

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
-- Martial

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
-- Daniel Greenberg

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
-- James Bennis

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
-- Frederic Chopin

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
-- Don Wilder

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
-- Elias Root Beadle

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.
-- Immanuel Kant

He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
-- Charles Pierre Péguy

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
-- Chinese Proverb

He who speaks the truth should have one foot in the stirrup.
-- Hindu Proverb

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
-- Alan Simpson

I think the reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself.
-- Rita Mae Brown

It may be true there are 2 sides to every question, but it is also true there are 2 sides to a sheet of flypaper and it makes a big difference to the fly which side he chooses.
-- Benjamin So

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
-- Ruth McKenney

Men must not only know, they must act.
-- W.E.B. Du Bois

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.
-- Isabel Paterson

My doctrine is this: if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and we do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in that guilt.
-- Anna Sewall

Of course, I have more, but that should do 'er.