"Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die."

Character, Selfishness, Survival, Sacrifice, Humanity

2

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die."

Exlpore more Character quotes

"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

George Eliot, British Author

Character, Nobility, Generosity, Judgment

"Failures make character, not success."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Character, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Character, Trials, Success, Qualities

"When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Character, Integrity, Truth, Power, Foundation

"Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Virtue, Patience, Loyalty, Kindness

"Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Character, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Happiness

"Fruits of the spirit in the man attract others to him."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Character, Virtue, Spirit, Attraction, Influence

"Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Character, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Happiness

"If you treat yourself well, you will be good to others."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Treat, Self, Good, Others

"Strive to be a person of character not a person of power."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Character, Power, Person, Strive

Explore more quotes by Suzanne Collins

"But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness."

Self

"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"

Pain

"Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them."

Awareness

"Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people"."

Corruption

"They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked."

Friendship

"But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it."

Love

"I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else."

Love

"I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me."

Emotion

"I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to, to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games."

Motivation

"If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up."

Support