Quotes About Character

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.

We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us.

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

I don't think that one moment in people's life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.

Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that's appropriate for the character.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

My experience is that there's absolutely a correlation between the enthusiasm within an animation studio for a given character and the enthusiasm the audience feels when seeing the movie.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

Two people live within me. One's a very savvy businessperson; the other's a party girl.

Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.