Quotes About Character

A man is known by the company he keeps. This is an infallible test; for his thoughts, and desires, and ambitions, and loves are revealed here. He gravitates naturally to his congenial sphere. And it affects character; for it is the atmosphere he breathes. It enters his blood and makes the circuit of his veins.

Bad men, like good men, are entitled to be tried and sentenced in accordance with law, and when it is shown to us that a person is serving an illegal sentence our obligation is to direct that proper steps be taken to correct the wrong done, without regard to the character of a particular defendant.

Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Doc's a sweet little man, five-eightish,

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

The only shame is to have none

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don't speak.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

Save the what? I call it the "Save the Cat" scene. They don't put it into movies anymore. And it's basic. It's the scene where we meet the hero and the hero does something — like saving a cat — that defines who he is and makes us, the audience, like him.

Because liking the person we go on a journey with is the single most important element in drawing us into the story.

The Covenant of the Arc is the screenwriting law that says: Every single character in your movie must change in the course of your story. The only characters who don't change are the bad guys. But the hero and his friends change a lot.

People, she realized, had rhythms, too. Unique ways of behaving and talking.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

As Dallas Willard has suggested, Christians must be weighed, not just counted.

My point is, Justin, a hero tells the truth, no matter what people might think about him. And you've always done that. From day one.

You can judge someone's character by what he does when no one's watching.