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Quotes About Character

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
~ Robert Greene
I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.
~ Ronald Reagan
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.
~ Socrates
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
~ Tennessee Williams
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
~ Abigail Adams
Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
~ Brittany Snow
There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.
~ Ronald Reagan
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
~ Saint Augustine
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
~ Stephen Covey
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
~ Taraji P. Henson
Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.
~ Tom Hanks
I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.
~ Kevin Bacon
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
~ Charles Dickens
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.
~ Clint Eastwood
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
~ Cunningham Geikie
The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.
~ David O. McKay
We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.
~ Epictetus
None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark.
~ Joseph Delaney
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.
~ Joseph Joubert
Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.
~ Neale Donald Walsch