Quotes About Character

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

What is left when honor is lost?

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person.

Be humble in this life.

Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.