Quotes About Character

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.

If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.

I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from the earliest age the difference between right and wrong. But we must all do our part.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

A woman has the age she deserves.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.