Character Quotes

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

The opposite of compromise is character.

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Your character should always be stronger than your circumstances.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

Character is BUILT by repeatedly choosing the best over the easiest.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.