Quotes About Character

It never crosses my mind whether certain readers will like or dislike certain characters. They are who they are.

He is as weak as a bent flaxstalk, and to be weak is to be wicked.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

How do some people just know some people are hard workers? Even if they have not witnessed this claim to fact regarding the person they make this claim as fact to surely! Because that person will usually have nothing. As the claimant would like to appear to any other as having everything! Think about it.

The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable.

You can never completely escape your DNA.

Indeed, this is one of the great evils of Welfarism—that it transforms the individual from a dignified, industrious, self-reliant spiritual being into a dependent animal creature without his knowing it. There is no avoiding this damage to character under the Welfare State.

In our attempt to make education "fun," we have neglected the academic disciplines that develop sound minds and are conducive to sound characters.

bullshit might help you get to the top, but it won't keep you there.

How can you compete, being honor bred, with one who, were it proved he lies, were neither shamed in his own nor his neighbor's eyes?

The clause "whose inside is not like his outside" is used elsewhere in the Talmud (b. Yoma "The Day" 72b) to indicate a person who puts on a nice show for others that does not conform to his inner, true self—a morally deceptive person in other words.

People are just more willing to follow someone they like and trust.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be rectified with a little thought by anyone.

The way I write isn't visually or stylistically dependent. It's usually one character that starts talking, and that points me where the story's going.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

I love acting. It's what I've done all my life, and to me, it's a lot easier than doing reality television because you get into a character, you remember your lines, and you go home and leave it all behind at the end of the day.

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

It's like I'm coming to a realization that I'm not Terence Trent D'Arby. I'm the soul playing a role of this character that was written.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.