Quotes About Character

Bill O'Reilly

of character for John Kennedy, a man

In this routine, the introverted Jefferson manages his emotions.

The principles of Twelve Step recovery are the opposite of our character defects.

Character – the inner world of motives and values that shapes our actions – is the ultimate determiner of the nature of our leadership. It empowers our capacities while keeping them in check. It distinguishes those who steward power well from those who abuse power. Character weaves such values as integrity, honesty, and selfless service into the fabric of our lives, organizations, and cultures.

But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body.

Character is power."1 Booker T. Washington

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Then tell them we've all got meanness in us...But tell them we have some good in us too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

People can like him or not like him individually. But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community.

If someone is willing to sell out his principles for the job, he is not worthy of it.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washington was asked to serve. Decades later, his successors were also expected to sit by the phone.

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

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.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.