Quotes About Character

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.