Quotes About Character

The gentleman who plays it in the new Star Trek movies is great, but he's acting. Leonard was Spock. He was always the character.

There was one thing the Star Trek movies did well, and that's the action sequences always had something going on and were character motivated.

I don't think seeing Spock endlessly slugging somebody captures the idea of Spock as a character; it just seems kind of dopey.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Their decision to keep above the fray made sense. Franklin and Washington were thin-skinned and recoiled from ad hominem attacks. Neither was particularly adept at defending a proposal in a contentious up-or-down vote, especially a proposition they helped to craft. Franklin might begin fiddling with the text and Washington might lose his temper.

What you have with Barack Obama is a lack of character.

Mitt Romney

The list of issues goes on, the point being that hedge fund investors don't have much protection and that the most important single thing to check before investing is the honesty, ethics, and character of the operators.

There are as many ways to do this as there are to portray characters in the theater. You can be the drunken cowboy from Texas or the wildly animated lady from Taiwan who can't wait to get her next bet down. You can be Caspar Milquetoast, the nervous accountant from Indianapolis who has already lost too much down the street. Or Miss Spectacular, who draws all the attention to herself, not to how she bets and plays.

primary mental abilities and perceptual and motor skills are the most influenced by heredity, while personality traits are the least influenced. If

True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.

The fault in his son lay not in his nature, which was honorable, but in his perceptions, which were limited.

cultures—people are spontaneously generous if forced to make instant decisions but begin to gravitate toward more selfish strategies if given time to think. All of this suggests that honest behavior is governed by automatic mental processes, whereas controlled processes are involved in lying or faking. In other words, effortless, unselfconscious behavior—behavior that is wu-wei—acts like a window into our true character.

are spontaneously generous if forced to make instant decisions but begin to gravitate toward more selfish strategies if given time to think. All of this suggests that honest behavior is governed by automatic mental processes, whereas controlled processes are involved in lying or faking. In other words, effortless, unselfconscious behavior—behavior that is wu-wei—acts like a window into our true character.

Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.

You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.

Through our struggles and pain, we are being offered perseverance, the character of God. Hardships are intended to give us a spiritual makeover, "that we may share in his holiness" (Heb. 12:10). Therefore, when God encourages us to persevere, he is not stumbling for encouraging words. He is teaching us how to look like him.

Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.