Quotes About Character

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.