Character Quotes

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Your character is your fate.

The main character of any living system is openness.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.

It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Character is the virtue of hard times.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.