Character Quotes

In His mercy, God gives us the level of revelation that our character is prepared to handle.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

I really love him [Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in Game of Thrones] - I love watching that character. It's quite phenomenal how people love to hate that character.

Choices determine character.

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

A good character is the best tombstone.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

Father said conflict develops the character

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

If you give people a chance, they shine.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

I like exploring, especially being and getting more comfortable with a character and in the space a character is always in.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.

Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.