Quotes About Character

By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and in continuing character.

Do not allow your clothing to attract attention. Seek not to please by the clothes you wear but by the life you live.

Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down.

Je problematischer der Charakter, desto problemloser erscheint ihm die Welt.

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

She's her mother's daughter - full of courage, determination, and strength she doesn't even know she has.

Remember that you are an actor in a play of whatever kind the producer may choose. If a short one, short; if a long one, long. If he wants you to play a beggar, see that you act even this part naturally; or a cripple, or a ruler, or an ordinary citizen. Your task is to give a good performance of the part that you are assigned. To select the part belongs to someone else.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently.

In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. —Albert Einstein

one could not choose one's family, but one could certainly choose one's manners.

A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

We largely become what we have observed and respected.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

God is not in the business of making our lives all sweetness and light. He is in the business of chipping away our exteriors so that the image of Christ can emerge. The most painful thing He could take us through is motivated by His love and orchestrated by His power. Under God's authority and by God's grace, you are no longer a victim. Instead, God is using the trial to form you into the image of Christ Jesus.