Quotes About Character

You must win the respect of your subordinates by treating them with absolute fairness. Of course it helps to have an inherently dominant personality and a character both strong and just, commanding and yet tolerant…

But that was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.

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Traits don't change, states of mind do.

the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues

He seemed a jovial, simple man, and had the eyes of a nice dog.

this man was even more divisive and dishonest than his presidential campaign revealed.

A responsible man remained unflappable in the face of personal loss. He would wave away an affront...

What you do and what you are is what matters.

Robert Bossu they called him, Robert the Hunchback

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

He's not a man, he's a machine.

just to be in his presence was an experience. It was what made Shackleton so great a leader.

she was not constructed so as to rise out of pressure to any great extent.

Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

Kind hearts are more than coronets / And simple faith than Norman blood.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

The nineteenth century exaggerated the power of the historical method, and assumed as a matter of course that every character should be studied only in its embryonic stage. Thus, for example, "Love" has been studied among the savages and latterly among the morons.

Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character. You don't suddenly alter just because the body's gone.

Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.

There was an air of obsequious insolence about the old Jew that was very offensive.

Su mismo carácter de cosas ordinarias, sentía yo, enmascaraba aquello que era maligno y hostil a nosotros.