Quotes About Character

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

We are what we repeatedly do.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

Attitude will always define who we are in life.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

How they treat you defines them. How you treat others defines you.