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Quotes About Character

I always run the stories by Capcom. They read the scripts and give their comments. I would never want to kill a character that they really want to use in the next game.
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.
~ Peter Hedges
Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
~ Oprah Winfrey
This is Donald Trump. He wants to respond. You know how he is.
~ Reince Priebus
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
~ Frederick Douglass
A leader leads by example not by force.
~ Sun Tzu
There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
~ Robert E. Lee
That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.
~ P. G. T. Beauregard
Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.
~ Giulio Douhet
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
~ Thomas Paine
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.
~ James Montgomery Boice
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
~ William Shakespeare
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
~ William Cobbett
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
~ Alexander H. Stephens
Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
~ William Westmoreland