Character Quotes

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

The person you are in the dark will eventually be the person you are in the light.

But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afra...

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work...

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarant...

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don'...

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, ...

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the ...

I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncan...

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of ...

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can tru...

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over,...

Character matters leadership descends from character.

The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit an...

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no ma...

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this charact...

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the societ...

Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a ...

If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid...

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character ...

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of ...

--a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never...

There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I...

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imaginatio...

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the sam...

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

...I do not think that it is right for a man to appeal to the jury or to get himself acquitted by do...

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal...

A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, ...

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out ...

You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not th...

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story shou...

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him...

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story shou...

Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madl...

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPo...

You're stubborn, Vlad.""Is that a compliment?

How you spend your energy is ultimately what creates who you

No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we reg...

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret...

He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. N...

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all o...

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of d...

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike...

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is ...

Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is m...

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vi...

Good but not religious-good.

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would ...

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all...

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ...

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more ...

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ...

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those ac...

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could...

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish...

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete over...

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use...

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to pre...

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I c...

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to ...

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasu...

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering f...

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I h...

And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that...

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of s...

It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals ...

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is a...

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.

One's character is set at an early age, son. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest o...

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most peopl...

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of you...

We are dealing, then, with an absurdity that is not a quirk or an accident, but is fundamental to ou...

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.