Quotes About Character

In The Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle's philosophical enquiry into virtue, character, and the good life, his challenge is to manage our emotional life with intelligence. Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. But they can easily go awry, and do so all too often. As Aristotle saw, the problem is not with emotionality, but with the appropriateness of emotion and its expression.

Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is "the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires."14

Some people are all self-presentation, with no substance to back it up. The varieties of social intelligence are no substitute for the other kinds of expertise that a given role may call for.

There is growing evidence that fundamental ethical stances in life stem from underlying emotional capacities

What you are about, is more important than who you are

everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

The humble, self-effacing Charlie you were all talking about a while ago is just waiting patiently. I'll admit I'm like him in a number of ways, but humility and self-effacement are not among them. I've learned how little they get a person in this world.

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

Essere vivi significa avere qualcosa da raccontare. Vuol dire essere l'eroe, il protagonista di una vicenda. Quando si diventa un personaggio marginale nella narrazione di qualcun altro, allora si è davvero morti.

Cowboys don't go around breaking hearts.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Friendship is not about people who act true to your face. It's about people who remain true behind your back.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you are.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.

Leadership is a choice you make, not a place you sit.

I believe life experiences are what an actor needs to relate to the character roles they take on, and to say the least. I've had many experiences leading up to this moment. Not only have my experiences become a tremendous asset in my acting, but also they helped me discover who I am and who I want to be.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.