Quotes About Character

The best story about Berta is my audition. I think they wanted her to be the ethnic character. They asked me to come with an Eastern European accent.

In television, what you have shot in the morning, may go on air that very day in the evening; but films give you a lot of time to work on your character.

Everybody is their own person.

Can you maintain the awareness of ultimate commonality while you are fully engaged in your life as a functional ego or a character? I believe you can, and this can be a powerful spiritual practice for anyone. This practice will continue until the gap between those two, your true nature and your characte, is filled, and your character manifests your true nature completely. My guess is that you will find the gap to be very enjoyable to fill.

A good basic character should be developed even before discussing enlightenment or the growth of your soul. That's why Zen initiates developed their basic character traits through nine years of study—three years of cleaning, three years of firewood collecting and cutting, and three years of cooking. Teachings on the Tao were transmitted only to those who had successfully cultivated such character in themselves.

Neither was evil. They were both true to who they are.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.

From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth

Faith should be about encouraging all that is noble in a human being.

Virtues are no less contagious than vices.

Learning without thought," said Confucius, "is labor lost: thought without learning is perilous." When character and not intelligence, when the soul and not the head, is chosen by a teacher for the material to work upon and to develop, his vocation partakes of a sacred character. "It is the parent who has borne me: it is the teacher who makes me man.

the boyish desire of the small Britisher, Tom Brown, "to leave behind him the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy or turned his back on a big one.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there.

People look at the outside of a person and assume they know everything there is to know about the inside of that person. The trouble is a few coats of paint and some new shutters can do a lot for the exterior of a house, but tell you nothing about its foundation or its ability to weather life's storms. I would say the same is true of people.

A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well." ? Frederick Douglass

I've heard it said that we are the sum total of every choice we've ever made. I don't think anyone could be a better example of that than I am.

But no histories of Man's goodness have ever been compiled, and no educational curricula that focus on this goodness have

With his intellectual rigor goes a great generosity of spirit.

there are some values worth standing up for, regardless of shifting cultural mores.