Character Quotes

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Thought creates character.

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won't get you in one shot. He'll come at you and he'll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character.

From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.