Quotes About Character

To educate the soul consists in teaching it to transform its envy into admiration.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never reenter it once we are on the outside.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.

Stubbornness equals character roughly as lust equals love.

Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are

We must know how to perform the foolishness our characters require.

La gloire ne peut apporter de joie à qui l'a volée: elle ne fait palpiter que les cœurs dignes d'elle.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

I wore a merkin for my full frontal scene in Billy Bathgate.

I think the reason so many people adored him has to do with the inarticulable sensation that his person was as large as his art. As people fell in love with Ben Meechum, Will McLean, Tom Wingo, Jack McCall, and Leo Bloom, they fell simultaneously in love with Pat, the writer and the man.

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

Learn to be gracious whether you win or lose.

When your life is possession-centered, the important thing is what you have; when it is principle-centered, the important thing is who and what you are.

I recited the poem to myself and wondered whether it was really possible for anyone to remain unstained by his environment. It was an idea contrary to Marxism, which held that the environment molded the man.

I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.

Instead of looking to increase our pleasure in life, they think, we should try to become better people and do the right thing. That is what makes a life go well.

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.