Quotes About Character

I just try to stay true to the characters that I'm asked to play and outside of that, if I do a commercial that pokes fun at myself or if I have a silly game that's named after me, that's okay. It is what it is.

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

You can teach someone a skill but you can't teach them spirit.

Men and women expected their share of trouble and the best of them attempted to use it, to rise above it and carve out a name for themselves through bravery and loyalty and generosity.

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?

These eight independent satellite states of the psychopathic personality--Machiavellian Egocentricity, Impulsive Nonconformity, Blame Externalization, Carefree Nonplanfulness, Fearlessness, Social Potency, Stress Immunity, and Coldheartedness.

The Buddha said everything starts with thoughts; that we speak and act based on thoughts; that our words and actions turn into habits—or addictions; and that those habits shape our character into something inflexible. So, he says, "Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings…. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become." This

scars tell stories of who we are and what we did. A person without marks hasn't done anything.

The real test of your character is not how much you deal with adversity — although that will teach you much. The real test is how you deal with power. The only cure for power is humility and the admission that your power comes from luck. The small person believes they are superior; the superior person knows they are lucky.

Before you are old attend as many funerals as you can bear and listen. Nobody talks about the departed's achievements. The only thing people will remember is what kind of person you were while you were achieving.

Powerful kids don't just happen; they're created. Give in and you won't win. Force a blowout, then remain calm.

What then of the honest atheist? Philosophically speaking, an atheistic American is a contradiction in terms." The Presbyterian praised atheists for being "fine in character" and "good neighbors" but suggested they were "spiritual parasites." "I mean no term of abuse in this," the minister added. "A parasite is an organism that lives upon the life force of another organism without contributing to the life of the other.

Unless he suddenly turns out to be a total psycho, he's a keeper

Displaying good character as a means of avoiding retribution after life is not just problematic but inherently selfish.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

As long as I stay with my values, something valuable happens.

Your values never fail you. You fail your values.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Money can make a difference. Money shouldn't make you any different.

There are only two kinds of people in this world... those who pick their nose... and liars. [Joshua, age 9]

Places, she told herself, were not evil: they were what people made of them.