Quotes About Character

The fruit of your life will be what you believe you are.

After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Make the man within your living ideal.

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.

I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.