Quotes About Character

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You can tell a man's character from his choices

Imagine a New Testament that closed with the little Letter of Jude addressed to a second-generation church that was being corrupted in its creed, conduct, character and conversation. So is that how it will all end? What a depressing anticlimax!

As we go through the Bible, when we come across a promise of God that is a 'pearl' of his wisdom you will find at the heart of it a piece of grit, a pain, an irritation, a suffering.

We don't care if you're wearing a suit or a T-shirt and jeans. What we care about is the condition of the heart." Gary Davis, Church in the Wind

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

People are "punished" or "rewarded" not for what they have done but for what they have become, and what we intentionally do is what makes us what we are.

I will stipulate to having both French sea salt and a big bottle of extra virgin in my kitchen. And while the presence of both might go some small distance in pigeonholing me demographically, neither one of them makes me a good person. They are mute and useless indicators of the content of my character.

Once you give up your integrity, everything else is a piece of cake. —J. R. Ewing

God made your body, mind, and soul. And He isn't done with you; He is still making you. God is making you braver, stronger, purer, more peaceful, more loving, less selfish - the kind of person you've perhaps always wanted to be.

She was a bit horsey-looking, but her face exuded both confidence and warmth.

It is an empty joy to appear better than you are; but a great blessing to be what you ought to be.

Along with sharp criticism, America needed a class of writers that would embrace the country and give it "a national character, an identity" creating "a new moral American continent" without which the physical one was "a carcass, a bloat.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

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It may be true that suffering builds character, but it also damages people

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

When doing the heroic thing, the right thing, conflicts with your personal power, and you choose the right thing over the personal power thing, you have begun to understand what Agape is. It's thankless, it's difficult, yet it's what the greatest songs are sung of.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

Then, towards the end of the meal, Anthony Hicks leant across the table towards me and looked me straight in the eye. 'I want you to remember', he said, a touch fiercely, 'that we, the audience, can and will smile with Poirot.' Then he paused. 'But we must never, ever, laugh at him.' There was another pause. 'And I am most certainly not joking.' I gulped, before Rosalind said, equally forcefully, 'And that is why we want you to play him.

Then, as the warm winds of May turned into an even warmer June, I started to write my private list of Poirot's habits and character. I called it my 'dossier of characteristics'. It ended up five pages long and detailed ninety-three different aspects of his life. I have the list to this day – in fact, I carried it around on the set with me throughout all my years as Poirot, just as I gave a copy to every director I worked with on a Poirot film.

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.