Quotes About Character

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

En el pragmatismo 'el hacer determina el ser', el carácter depende de la acción, nos formamos conforme avanzamos, gracias a nuestras propias elecciones.

Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition.

The Democratic Party is like a mule—without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity.

Nothing vague, idle, or purely speculative, is to occupy man in the retreat. He comes to learn to conquer himself; to free himself from evil passions; to reform the disorder, great or little, of his past life, and to regulate it for the future by a plan conformable to the Divine will.

Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead, it is determined by the choice to acknowledge its presence and follow its lead

With the muscles of our body, we can lift and move heavy things. With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust from our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

Hank was his parents' child in every respect. Whether through propinquity or some mystery of DNA, Hank had Lilly's driving ambition, but it would be repeatedly subverted by Lon's tendency to backslide.

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

All work is honorable. Always do your best, because someone is watching.

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Your error is that you think this world is the reality. In truth, eternity is the reality and this life is but a shadow, a place to develop our character and grow more like Jesus.

The scars don't define you. Who you really are inside is what matters. Any woman with real depth would know that.

Integrity has rewards that are more valuable than how many days we spend on earth.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

She wasn't surprised when his character revealed itself—if you waited long enough, it always did. Like the dawn.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

A good deed does not erase a bad in my mind, yet neither does a bad dead erase a good.

He be the persona of the peoples.

To Be who one is, is the greatest Be of All.

If you hang around with nine fools, then your sure to be the tenth.