Character Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

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.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

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

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

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

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip 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."

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.