Quotes About Character

I don't think there is just one Louis Vuitton woman. That is why, for the fall/winter 2011 show, I loved the idea of lots of different characters - a wife, a mistress, a girlfriend - stepping out of the row of hotel elevators.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.

The interest in character-driven content over narrative-driven ditto is increasing; that's why television steps in. Personally, I love it, since psychology and character, really, are my beacons.

I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about gays.

Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a man who does. . . . Macbeth is the only one of Shakespeare's plays in which the villain and the hero are the same character.

For the Revolutionary generation, silent virtue almost always would be valued more than loud eloquence.

Rollin's works were not just records of events, but also instruction manuals about how to live, and especially how to acquire virtue.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.

Good, but not religious-good.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered