Character Quotes

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

A man's character is his fate.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.

The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.