Quotes About Character

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

Ask no one to speak of you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice how your name is spreading around among people, don't take it more seriously than any of the other things you find on their lips. Think: your name has turned bad, and get rid of it. Take on another, any other, so that God can call you in the night. And conceal it from everyone.

winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings

Winning does not tempt that man, This is how he grows, by being defeated decisively, by greater and greater beings.' The Man Watching ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

It is not necessary to make your children hermits; you should make them gentlemen. That would be more than enough.

popular, were combined with the special virtues of some local bootlegger, the eloquence of some Negro preacher, the strength and grace of some local athlete, the ruthlessness of some businessman-physician, the elegance in dress and manners of some head-waiter or hotel doorman.

A great man is always willing to be little.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

A man is known by the books he reads.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will come out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Character is that which can do without success.

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.