Character Quotes

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.

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.

Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

Character is what you do when no one is watching.

You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

Style is a display of character. It's also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Times will change for the better when you change.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.

It is [every woman’s] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

What you are comes to you.