Character Quotes

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...

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, h...

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplic...

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an o...

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while ...

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its...

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of ...

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, an...

I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, a...

With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving ...

Character is what can do without success

Character is that which can do without success.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their characte...

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. I...

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis cou...

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient dist...

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us....

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as...

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that...

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character en...

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...