Quotes About Character

True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

He was too simple to wonder how he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

That's what life is about, doing as good as you can. When the times comes for them to lay you down in the long black hole, they can say one thing: 'He did as good as he could.' That's the best thing you can say for a man. Horse breaker or yard sweeper, let them say the poor boy did it good as he could.

The form of observation , which underlines all speech and language development, always expresses a peculiar spiritual character , a special way of conceiving and apprehending. The difference between the several languages, therefore, is not a matter of different sounds and marks, but of different world conceptions.

Jesus would rather have us do what is right than what is "Christian." Earlier

no debemos permitir que el temor nos robe nuestro futuro, y cada día que caminamos por esta tierra debemos estar seguros de no guardar nada para la próxima vida. Nunca debes permitir que el temor te mantenga atrapado. El momento en que decides jugar a lo seguro, has perdido el partido. En lugar de huir de tus temores, apóyate en ellos, porque al otro lado de ellos está el futuro que anhelas. Esos momentos forman carácter y forjan el futuro.

El futuro de Dios nunca llegará a nosotros a costa de nuestro carácter. Esta persona a la que yo antes respetaba mucho cometió el trágico error de dejar en su pasado lo que debió haber sido su futuro, y hacer de su futuro lo que debió haber sido su pasado.

It's our job to transform literature into an event. We do this with why and how. Why our character speaks and how our character speaks.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

Not simply every number is tuneful, as in, say, The Boys From Syracuse. Not even every number exhilarates character, as in My Fair Lady. Rather: every number makes the experience so vivid that we are reminded that music theatre is our highest—our most complete—art.

Gable suited MGM because Gable was larger than life. Cagney suited Warner Brothers because Cagney was life.

Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.

Memory returned like spring, Laurel thought. Memory had the character of spring. In some cases, it was the old wood that did the blooming

What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself. Whether this happens to be a man or a woman, old or young, with skin black or white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set most high.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately. It's

Ve den som vil bevare sitt særpreg!

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

I guess you don't always have to be a nice guy to be a good man.

As for Mustafa Kemal, he was to tell the English journalist Grace Ellison in 1923: 'I don't like Napoleon at all. He intruded his person into everything. He fought not for a cause, but for himself. That's why he came to a bad end. It's inevitable for such people.'45

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards alive. As

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards

She knows about men, knows a good deal of the world's character. But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.