Quotes About Character

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.