Quotes About Character

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

Habits form a second nature.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.