Quotes About Character

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

You never play age, you play character.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

Robert De Niro is just evolved as a human being. He's a very kind guy. Age has been good for him, in terms of just, he's very kind.

He's 19 years of age, ... He's a fiery character and competitive. I think maybe when he sees things that are a bit of an injustice against him then he reacts like that.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.