Quotes About Character

The audience is expecting good work from me. They want me to do roles that are unique and important in the story. So, I am trying to focus on different characters to play. I am doing the kind of films which are completely different from each other.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

In studying the character and works of a great man, it is always desirable to learn in what he is distinguished from others, and what have been the causes if this difference.

The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved. When

The same traits of character might be seen in Colonel Lloyd's slaves, as are seen in the slaves of the political parties.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Giving style" to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

The noble soul reveres itself

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

One is punished most for one's virtues.

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

For the true poet the metaphor is not a rhetorical figure but a representative image that really hovers before him in place of a concept. For him, the character is not a whole laboriously assembled from individual traits, but a person, insistently living before his eyes, distinguished from the otherwise identical vision of the painter by his continuous life and action.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.

To impose the character of being upon becoming is the supreme test of power.

Thus says the fool: Association with men spoils the character, especially when one has none.

To give style to one's character—that is a grand and rare art! He who surveys all that his nature presents in its strength and in its weakness, and then fashions it into an ingenious plan, until everything appears artistic and rational, and even the weaknesses enchant the eye..exercises that admirable art.

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

Whenever you reach a decision, close your ears to even the best objections: this is the sign of a strong character. Which means: an occasional will to stupidity.