Character Quotes

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your ...

Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked up...

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themsel...

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather...

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familia...

Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is ...

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in...

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I'm done; for you don't need m...

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never ...

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally...

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember R...

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing ...

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Wher...

In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This...

To measure the man, measure his heart.

It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no r...

To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which no...

A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only th...

Maximus was my model for self-control, fixity of purpose, and cheerfulness under ill-health or other...

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without a...

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deservi...

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

But if Crake wanted her to stay longer on any given night, do it again maybe, she'd make some excuse...

I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily...

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

He liked to like people therefore people liked him.

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

I was born modest not all over but in spots.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it...

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be jud...

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a ...

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in ...

In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure peop...

Times will change for the better when you change.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any oth...

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, the...

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situ...

I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would suggest you're...

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that pe...

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of ...

The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or ...

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because o...

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentra...

In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging-and could have been from the v...

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves ...

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the ...

What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and tha...

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days...

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomina...

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace a...

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...

Character is perfectly educated will.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of b...

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one partic...

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man ...

At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportu...

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had...

I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be ...

We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character...

Politics ruins the character.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriora...

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, im...

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cauti...

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray thi...

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retalia...

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were ...

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to ...

Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devo...

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being...

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

A person’s authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as ...

You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations,...

But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an ...

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops an...