Quotes About Character

The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

What we do flows from who we are.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.