Quotes About Character

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

People who personify excellence are people who invoke the same in others.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attidute.

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

In my experience, it's much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Let weakness learn meekness.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

Leadership is not about experience, education or talent. It's about choosing to lead.

you are only what you are when no one is watching.

The pain is not about having cheap people around…. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.