A Quote by Brandon Sanderson

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

Brandon Sanderson

Quote Topics

Action Around Character Correct Defense Expect Finest Proper Those Treatment Virtue Yourself

Quote Author

Brandon Sanderson
American - Writer
Born: December 19, 1975

They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and there is a correct and proper way to behave with other people. And I behaved improperly with John and feel bad, so I compensate by obsessing with language, which is easier to control than behavior.

Peter Cameron

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Marquis de Sade

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper.

Alexandra Stoddard

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.

Richard G. Scott

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Edmund Burke

This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the reality that is not words , that lies beyond the reach of words. If you are fortunate enough to be Awakened thus, you will know why the finest language is the one that is not spoken, the finest action is the one that is not done and the finest change is the one that is not willed.

Anthony de Mello

I've always been very strong minded on character-based fights and character-based action. If you take the character out of the action and you just shoot it as an action sequence, the audience starts to lose connection.

Wade Eastwood

You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

Ayn Rand

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

Henry George

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

Luc Montagnier

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

Plato

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Plutarch

It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.