Quotes About Character

Habits form a second nature.

Please, do remember what I told you, and don't open the script until I decide you should. You must first spend a great deal of time getting to know the subtext for the character as it develops, and making it secure. The actual words must only serve the action, they are one of the external

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.

Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace; Both put together Make a very pretty face

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Dear God, I know how far short I fall of focusing on what is truly important. Help me always to remember what is important to You—what's inside rather than outside—and then give me the power through Your Spirit to develop those inward characteristics that please You. In Your name today, Lord, I put on gentleness and kindness and patience and self-control and all the rest. Thank You for what You're accomplishing in my life already. Amen.

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American enlisted man to rise to four-star general, and he so identified with those he led that he once invited a sentry out of the rain and gave him his own dry uniform.

I long to see Christ's life formed in me. I want to become the person God had in mind when He created me.

I call saintliness not a state but the moral procedure leading to it.

So tell me now. Please. Is there anything you've heard today, or anything in your life, your character, that would prevent you from being the open-minded jurors we need you to be?

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

You don't have to dream when you habitually think good and do good.

I don't want to be known for my face. I want to be known for my work.

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.

It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires SPIRIT. It's

Estoy pasando por un cambio total de mi carácter. Odio la inestabilidad. Me asusta la idea de ver mi vida desorganizada.

Do you think a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions? Character," she added solemnly, "is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.

I'm getting old... Soon I'll be thirty, and then forty, and then fifty; and do you think any one will love me then if I deal in subterfuges and evasions? Character, my dear girls, is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.