Character Quotes

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

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

Money will not purchase character or good government.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Character + Chance = Success

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

You don't know me. Don't ever think you know me. The only things you know about me are the things you made me do, and that illustrates your character, not mine.

We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The real Da'wah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.