Quotes About Character

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

Personne n'a le droit de nous juger avant la fin, parce que nous les hommes, on est capable du meilleur comme du pire

I asked nothing more than to be judged justly. My act didn't always play well with my audience, and the reviews (which came in the form of verdicts) often panned my performance. In the end, however, the theater company of justice decided that, cost what it may, that role would belong to me for all time, even after the production had finished its run, and no more performances were scheduled. Playing "out of character" had therefore been my way of choosing freedom.

What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?" He went on to answer his own question. "The value in it is what you learn about yourself. In this sort of situation all kinds of qualities come out—things that you may not have seen in yourself before.

Six-time Ironman winner Mark Allen hit the nail on the head when he described endurance racing as "a test of you as a person on top of a test of you as an athlete." But

Having shot Stilt Man in the taint with a bazooka -- I'Â've come to realize every character is somebodyÂ's favorite character.

You can say one thing and do something completely different. People can talk all they want but if their actions are not congruent with their words, then their social value will crash into the ground and often they will not get a second chance because they will be perceived as a liar. That

Yet the evidence, from twin studies, from the children of immigrants and from adoption studies, is now staring us in the face: people get their personalities from their genes and from their peers, not from their parents.

Just as human nature is the same everywhere, so it is recognizably the same as it was in the past. A Shakespeare play is about motives and predicaments and feelings and personalities that are instantly familiar. Falstaff's bombast, Iago's cunning, Leontes's jealousy, Rosalind's strength, and Malvolio's embarrassment have not changed in four hundred years. Shakespeare was writing about the same human nature that we know today. Only

As Lord Acton said, great men are mostly bad men.

if your being is good your works will be good, and if your being is just your works will be just.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

We become the books we read.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

They're always like, 'Would my character really do this or really do that?' And I'm like, 'Who gives a shit? Just make them do it, you coward. Don't be so passive.' You and I, we're in charge of what we can do and what we can't do.

If she wasn't pretty enough for them, fine, because they weren't worth her time anyway. They didn't make her happy. None of them were good people. None of them were nice.

No shoe should be judged by its footprint, for the foot has a print of its own.

Noah was many things, but funny was not one of them.

Good resume," he said, not sounding all that impressed. "But what's he like?" Oh, God. This conversation was going to go on.

She didn't want him to have good qualities. Horrible people should be horrible all the time.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.