Quotes About Character

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.

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People's voices never change, no more than the expressions in their eyes. Amid the generalised physical collapse that is old age, the voice and the eyes bear painfully indisputable witness to the persistence of character, aspirations, and desires, everything that constitutes a human personality.

Yo no correspondo exactamente a ningún perfil de consumidor inventariado, eso es todo.

Jos hävittää moraalisuuden omasta persoonastaan, se on sama kuin karkoittaisi maailmasta moraalin, siinä määrin kuin se on itsestä kiinni.

When we say a character in my films doesn't function, we mean he doesn't function as a person, but he does function as a character that is, until you take him as a symbol. At that point it is you who are not functioning. Why not simply accept him as a character, without judging him? Accept him for what he is. Accept him as a character in a story, without claiming that he derives or acquires meaning from that story. There may be meanings, but they are different for all of us.

Someone once told me that flaws are what give people real beauty

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.

we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

You can be a lousy vampire. You can be a lousy human. What you are doesn't mean anything. It's what you do with what you are that counts.

Mickey Mehta says, "If you are deep rooted in humility you get better fruited in simplicity thus MickeyMizing your personality with adulation!" Share this for getting more humans grounded.

There is an actor in every character you are playing. We are sons, daughters, students, lovers, friends, employees, students, parents, etc. Be true and real under every skin you wear, don't be characterized, be yourself first, sincere, real and get MickeyMized.

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

Don't be yourself — be someone a little nicer.