Quotes About Character

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.