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Quotes About Character

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.
~ Rebecca West
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.
~ Rick Warren
I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.
~ Angela Sidney
It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.
~ Anton Chekhov
What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.
~ Catherine Deneuve
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
~ Clarence Darrow
Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.
~ David Jeremiah
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
~ David Levithan
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
~ Eric Heiden
She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It's going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.
~ Melanie Martinez
A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.
~ Michael Treanor
He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities.
~ Paulo Coelho
The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.
~ Oscar de la Renta
The psych up comes from knowing what I can both give and get from each role. I get a lot personally from each character I play that I am able to carry over into my everyday life.
~ Rachael Leigh Cook
The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'
~ John Wooden
No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.
~ Robin Sharma
I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
~ S. E. Hinton
Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.
~ Saint Augustine
In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.
~ Sophia Bush
There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
~ Theodore Roosevelt