Quotes About Character

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself

While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.

If you look long into human nature, you will see that the bonds which hold the firmest are not material ones, that an idea will make a man and mold a character, that it lies at the source of all heroisms, and is to be courted or feared, as the case may be.

I've finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.