Quotes About Character

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

Thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.

There is nothing more becoming a wise man than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art. Let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters than thy inferiors; shunning always such as are poor and needy, for if thou givest twenty gifts and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies.

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

He is an Englishman!For he himself has said it,And it's greatly to his credit,That he is an Englishman!

I love my fellow creatures—I do all the good I can—Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!And I can't think why!

People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!

Love the player for who they are, not for what they can do for you. Kids see through the coach whose only concern is for himself.

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.