Quotes About Character

If you remain unaffected by worldly attractions and intimidations, you will definitely command a tremendous influence on the world. Anyone, who doubts this, is a fool and a person of low intellect.

Be the person I'm playing. That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but the good man will at once also beautiful be

He who is beautiful is so only when seen, but he who is good is beautiful at once.

A handsome man is good to look at, but a good man will be handsome as well.

To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to be beautiful too" As translated by Suzy Q. Groden in Sappho: Poems (1966)

A man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but a good man at once takes on beauty.

And I knew that who I was was not entirely dependent on my results. I am who I am because of who I am, not because of the commodities I generate or even the, you know, the sacred objects that I generate. I am not my results. I am my process.

That's when Josh got the feeling that he was watching himself, too, almost like he was a character in a movie. But it wasn't the right kind of movie, and he wondered about that. How do you get to be in the kind of movie you want to be in? Everyone else appeared to be in really awesome movies, full of camaraderie and laughter. Funny moments and ice cream cones. Adventure and suspense. Heroes! How could a person get into one of those?

A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful creature, the eccentric aunt. I fear I fall into the latter category.

If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.

You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!.

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

The Christian community first came up with theological abstractions because eventually we had to speak in shorthand about the complexity of God's story and character, or we'd never get anywhere in regular discourse with one another.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.