Character
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.
Author: Thomas GrayTopics: Age, Character, Famous
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Author: Wayne DyerTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings
I’ve always been a big fan of funny people and funny characters.
Author: Teri GarrTopics: Character, Famous, Funny
I’ve been lucky to have played some quirky characters, but I also love the roles where I get to show a little more depth.
Author: Teri GarrTopics: Character, Famous, Positive
Every character in my films is like a piece of my own soul.
Author: Yash ChopraTopics: Character, Famous, Souls
Your character is defined not by your victories, but by how you handle defeat and bounce back stronger.
Author: Steve WaughTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
Author: Vin DieselTopics: Believes, Character, Famous
When I write, I try to become different characters.
Author: Billie EilishTopics: Ability, Character, Famous
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it character in action
Author: Vince LombardiTopics: Action, Character, Mind, mind of state, Mind-Blowing
Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It’s about character first. It’s about story. And for me, it’s about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.
Author: Ricky GervaisTopics: Character, Comedy, Drama, Empathy, Famous, Likability, Meaningful, Someone, Story
To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Character, Famous, Leadership, Strong, Water
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don’t want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Character, Christianity, Embracing, Famous, Self-Acceptance
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Character, Dark, Famous, Hard, Trying
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Character, Famous, Integrity, People, Thinking
Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Character, Company, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing
What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element, and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits, and character.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Chance, Character, Famous, Habit, Happy, Heaven, Taste
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of ‘the image of Christ’ must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Character, Christ, Doctrine, Doing, Famous, Holy, Observed, Personal Habits
I think often times on Joss Whedon’s shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
Author: J. August RichardsTopics: Character, Famous, Hate, Love
I always say that I’m at my best when there’s no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there’s not much and I have to create it.
Author: J. August RichardsTopics: Character, Create, Famous
I went right to the ‘Guide to the Marvel Universe,’ which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found ‘Deathlok,’ read about him there.
Author: J. August RichardsTopics: Character, Famous, Issues, Universe
Oddly enough, I’ve always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn’t use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
Author: J. August RichardsTopics: Character, Famous, Story, Thoughts
Oddly enough, I’ve always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn’t use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
Author: J. August RichardsTopics: Character, Famous, Phoenix, Story, Thoughts
All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don’t let them reach those goals.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Character, Famous, Giving, Goals
The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Broken, Business, Character, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Character, Depends, Estimate, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Passion
Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Character, Common, Equalizes, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Politician
The best roles are the ones where you have a connection with the character. It’s like an extension of yourself
Author: A. J. CookTopics: Character, Connection, Experiences, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Like, Like me, Meaningful, Self
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Character, Drama, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Real
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Found out, Life, Meaningful, Measure, Real
A well-portrayed character lingers in the hearts of the audience, becoming a part of their own stories
Author: A. J. BuckleyTopics: Character, Heart, Heart Rate
Great stories resonate because they tap into universal truths; that’s the power of compelling characters
Author: A. J. BuckleyTopics: Character, Power, Power of music, Power of nature, Stories, Truth, Universal expression, Universal Impact
Characters are like puzzle pieces; my job is to fit into their world and bring them to life
Author: A. J. BuckleyTopics: Bring, Bringing hope, Character
Acting is a journey of self-discovery; every role is a new chapter in understanding the human experience
Author: A. J. BuckleyTopics: Act, Character, Human, Human behavior, Journey, Joyful, Self, Self Belief, Understanding Language
If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre, which it has never yet enjoyed, and an example will be set, which can not but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Character, Faith, Famous, Freedom, Gratitude, Honor, Justice, Mankind, Qualities.
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Character, Communication, Famous, Guardians, People
Donna Tartt blows me away – that impeccable writing, so rich you could eat it and so luminous that it lights up the whole room, and the way she brings her characters to life so completely and in such fine detail that you know them as intimately as your dearest friends.
Author: Tana FrenchTopics: Character, Famous, Life, Meaningful, People, Room
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon… has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Character, Communication, Examining, Famous, Free, Government, Guardians, Measure, Public, Right, Right to voice
All of these characters have some DNA of mine, I share it with the character
Author: Keanu ReevesTopics: Character, DNA, Famous
In writing lyrics – well, for me, anyway – it’s about getting into character, you know? ‘Who is writing this?’ In the case of the original ‘Thick As A Brick,’ supposedly a precocious, very young child who’s fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
Author: Ian AndersonTopics: Character, Children, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Character, Famous, Little, Mission
Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.
Author: Gail DeversTopics: Character, Famous, Happened, Life, Reason, Strong
Daughter, we didn’t need your note – or a prince’s visit – to tell us you’d done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander. Father.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Character, Daughters, Famous, Father, Fear, Love, Trust
The true measure of a person’s character is how they treat those who can do nothing for them
Author: I.King jordanTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Positive, True
If you’re making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.
Author: Ryan GoslingTopics: Character, Effects, Engages, Famous, Meaningful, Movies, Time, Times
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don’t know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
Author: Ryan GoslingTopics: Character, Comfortable, Faith, Famous, Hope, Meaningful, Necessarily, Perspective, Spiritual
He … boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable.
Author: Gail CarrigerTopics: Character, Famous, Mustache
Classic author moment, “Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?
Author: Gail CarrigerTopics: Character, Famous, Humor, Moment
I don’t know, a lot of people go crazy about ‘Breaking Bad,’ but I don’t like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like ‘The Wire.’ It’s more about the state of things; it’s not about the narrative of a person.
Author: Gael Garcia BernalTopics: Character, Crazy, Famous, Following, People, State
We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
Author: Gael Garcia BernalTopics: Character, Famous, Men, Play, Women
I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It’s always different though. Sometimes a director will tell you from day one what they want. Then you throw in your idea.
Author: Gael Garcia BernalTopics: Character, Creating, Enjoy, Famous, Ideas, Love, Rehearsal
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that’s what you hope.
Author: Ryan GoslingTopics: Character, Famous, Hope, Meaningful, Movies, Place, True
On his character Dean in Blue Valentine: It’s sad, because he just doesn’t have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter, which should be enough but doesn’t seem to be enough in this case.
Author: Ryan GoslingTopics: Ambition, Character, Daughters, Famous, Loving, Meaningful, Valentine
All my characters are me. I’m not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think ‘I wonder what that feels like.’ Because for me, they’re all me.
Author: Ryan GoslingTopics: Actors, Character, Characters, Famous, Feelings, Good, Meaningful, Wonder
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life
Author: TheophrastusTopics: Character, Consider, Famous, Feelings, Generation, Life, Meaningful, Morphology, Nature
Aaranya Kaandam’ is a term from the Ramayana. It means Jungle Chapter but apart from the term, I haven’t borrowed anything else. The characters are as good or as bad as the common man.
Author: Thiagarajan KumararajaTopics: Character, Famous, Good, Ramayana
I like strong women. Strong women characters have always existed in the movies of directors such as K. Balachander and Mani Ratnam
Author: Thiagarajan KumararajaTopics: Character, Famous, Strong, Women
Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world’s population.
Author: Tom HanksTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Larger, Meaningful, Percent, Population, World
vIn baseball, success is measured not just by wins and losses but by the character of the players.
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Character, Loss issues, Losses, Lost opportunities, Player, Playful actions, Succeed Greatly, Success, Successful, Successful journey, Winning
I don’t care what it is, when I’m playing a character, I put a lot of truth into it. I put my heart and soul into it.
Author: Tom CruiseTopics: Care, Character, Famous, Feelings, Heart, Inspirational, Playing, Positive, Soul, Truth
Baseball is a game where you can’t hide; your character is always on display
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Always, Character, Display, Hide, Hideous thing, Hiding feelings
I can say this: You haven’t lived until you’ve had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
Author: KaDee StricklandTopics: Character, Famous, Interesting, Learning, Make, Months, Pregnancy, Triplet pregnancy belly
You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can’t betray that. And if you don’t betray that, it will not betray you
Author: Theresa RebeckTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Respect, Truth
Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn’t care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.
Author: Tim BurtonTopics: Care, Character, Famous, Feelings, Life, Love, Meaningful, Really, Weird
It’s always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that’s got emotion.
Author: Tim BurtonTopics: Challenge, Character, Create, Emotion, Famous, Feelings, Interesting, Life, Meaningful
I always liked strange characters.
Author: Tim BurtonTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Strange
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Character, Dignity, Famous, Feel, Feelings, Force, Fraud, Happiness, Imposed, Irritated, Mankind, Meaningful, Natural, Scarcely
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Character, Faith, Famous, Fracture, Grown Up, Honor, Posterity, Seedtime, Tree, Union, Young
Every story is a journey, and every character is a traveler on that journey
Author: A. B. YehoshuaTopics: Character, Journey, Joyful, Stories, Story, Storytelling, Straight
He made his character his platform.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Character, Famous, Inspiration, Leadership, Platform
I profoundly regard writing and hope to pick up knowledge from a book and to distinguish it sincerely from its characters. I accordingly abstain from perusing tension books or sci-fi.
Author: A. B. YehoshuaTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Life, Meaningful, Terrible
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS…
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Character, Citizenship, Distinction, Famous, Home, Latter, Local, Meaningful, National, Particular, World
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Foppery, Harmless, Marks, Meaningful, Nicknames, Titles
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, God, Life, Meaningful, Reputation, Thinks, Women
Character is much easier kept than recovered
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Kept, Meaningful, Recovered
David Wain’s character on ‘Bob’s Burgers’ is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.
Author: H. Jon Benjamin
Topics: Character, Famous, Laugh, Making, Silly
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Character, Famous, Fiction
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character – meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Built, Character, Condition, Existed, Famous, History, India, Meditatiive, Peaceful, Philosophers
What are you reading?” Owen asks. “Charlotte’s Web,” Liz says. “It’s really sad. One of the main characters just died.” “You ought to read the book from end to beginning,” Owen jokes. “That way, no one dies, and it’s always a happy ending.
Author: Gabrielle ZevinTopics: Character, Famous, Happy ending, Reading
I think I’m drawn to more villain-type characters, because it’s so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
Author: Gabrielle UnionTopics: Character, Experience, Famous, Hollywood, Thinking, Villain
Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Character, Development, Everything, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Morality, Positive, Practice, Principles, Useful, Virtue, Wisdom
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
Topics: Character, Leads, Leaking, Matter, Principal, Principles
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Integrity, Lie, Meaningful, Permits, Second time, Tell, Trust
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Action, Character, Famous, Feelings, Identity, Intention, Meaningful, Positive, Purpose, Self-Definition, Self-Discovery
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of ‘Dawson’s Creek.’ I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, ‘Did I really have to do all that studying?’
Author: Gabriel MannTopics: Character, Dirty, Famous, Role Models
The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you’re putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.
Author: Gabriel MannTopics: Character, Famous, Order, Story, Together
What you are will show in what you do.
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Action, Character, Expression, Famous, Feelings, Identity, Impact, Life, Meaningful, Reflection, Show
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Identity, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, qualities, Value, Worth
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Character, Department, Depending, Like, Like me, Used To, Useful, Useful Things
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
Author: Theodor HerzlTopics: Character, Charity, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Ruined
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Topics: Character, Dancing, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Self, Self Belief, Self Respect, Still, Stillness
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Author: Ronald ReaganTopics: Character, Way
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
Author: Gabriel ByrneTopics: Character, Famous, Opposite, People, Personality, Portraying, Rule, Thumb
One of my personal plights in this business is about playing ‘The Sassy Black Girl.’
Author: Gabourey SidibeTopics: Business, Character, Famous, Personal plights, Playing, Sassy black girl
I’m really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that’s what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.
Author: Gabourey SidibeTopics: Character, Famous, Happy, Inspirational, Living, Mean, Purposeful
If you’re writing on your own, each character is just you. It’s just you.
Author: Gabourey SidibeTopics: Character, Development, Famous, Individual Writing, Inspirational, Motivational, Self-Reflection
Acting is acting, and who you are will still remain to be who you are. You know, that part won’t change it. It will change your wallet, you know? It’ll change your life. It will open opportunities for you, but it’s not going to change your character.
Author: Gabourey SidibeTopics: Character, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Opportunity
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Topics: Caring, Character, Create, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Living, Living Fully, Meaningful, Novel, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Write
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Character, Determine, Example, Famous, Follow, Imagine, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Model, Personality, Private, Public
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Character, Dangerous, Die, Imposing, Impossible, Suggests, Suicide
The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Character, Leading, Leads, Necessity, Need, Novel
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Character, Consider, Famous, Honest, Succeed, Success
A true test of a man’s character is his humility in victory and grace in defeat.
Author: Enzo FerrariTopics: Character, Defeat, Famous, Grace, Humility, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Test, Victory
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Character, Famous, Foundation, Lawful, Obedience
It’s patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent ‘all Muslims.
Author: G. Willow WilsonTopics: Character, Famous, Muslim, Represent
Loyalty is a feature in a boy’s character that inspires boundless hope.
Author: Robert Baden-PowellTopics: Character, Characters, Feature, Hope, Inspires, Loyalty
I’m from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on ‘M*A*S*H!’
Author: G. W. BaileyTopics: Character, Famous, Inspirational, Sadness
God uses various agencies as ambassadors of His truth. The perfection of the instrument used gives character to the work. A noble character will command respect and confidence.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Character, Confidence, Famous, God, Inspirational, Instrument, Life, Meaningful, Noble, Positive, Respect, Truth, Work
The Bible and its precepts are to be the means of testing character.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Character, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Precepts
Walk continually in the light of God. Meditate day and night upon His character. Then you will see His beauty and rejoice in His goodness. Your heart will glow with a sense of His love. You will be uplifted as if borne by everlasting arms. With the power and light that God imparts, you can comprehend more and accomplish more than you ever before deemed possible.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Character, Famous, God, Goodness, Heart, Inspirational, Life, Light, Love, Meaningful, Meditate, Positive, Possible, Power, Rejoice, walk
Character is power.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Power
Our character is but the shadow of what we are to be. Christ’s object in coming to earth was to reveal to men that lost image of God’s character in themselves.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Character, Christ, Earth, Famous, God, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time
Author: Elbert HubbardTopics: Character, Results, Things, Times, Times of difficulty
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Breath, Character, Dead, Famous, Inspirational, Names, People, Portraits
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Building, Character, Continue, Death, Famous, Infancy, Inspirational, Meaningful
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Author: Elbert HubbardTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Many, Meaningful, Reputation, Street Style, Streets
The ultimate test of a nation’s character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Challenge, Character, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Peace
You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Character, Famous, Learn, Meaningful
Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Author: Richard BachTopics: Character, Famous, People, Reputation, Work
Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.
Author: Ray LewisTopics: Character, Famous, Football, Goal, Life, Playing, Ultimate, Visions
I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Character, Direction, Famous, Great, Life, Like, Like me, Meaningful, Movies, Moving, Natural, Natural bravery, Watch, Watching
It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Character, Deeper, Drama, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Overcome, Overcoming
I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Character, Charge, Famous, Feelings, Like, Like me, Meaningful, Moral character, Reality, Realization
It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Character, Charge, Famous, Feelings, Fun, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Yourself
I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Leading, Leads, Life, Meaningful, Thinking, Thought-provoking
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonTopics: Character, Confession, Famous, Meaningful, Opinion, People, World
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
Author: PlutarchTopics: Character, Famous, Friend, Meaningful
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.
Author: PlutarchTopics: Character, Distinction, Famous, Meaningful
Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.
Author: Gordon RamsayTopics: Character, Environment, Famous, Hard, Kitchens, Strong
Quality of character doesn’t make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Character, Famous, leader, Meaningful
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
Author: Helen KellerTopics: Character, Famous, Real, Silver
The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
Author: Helen KellerTopics: Character, Determination, Facing, Famous, Hard conditions, Inspirational, Motivational, True test
For ‘Hercules,’ I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you’re playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot.
Author: Dwayne JohnsonTopics: Character, Famous, Mean, Meaningful
The way you behave when nobody is around defines your real character.
Author: Pawan KalyanTopics: Character, Famous, Meaningful, Nobody, Real, Way
I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I’m a “spoilt airhead,” but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.
Author: Paris HiltonTopics: Character, Famous, Meaningful, People, Playing, Producers, Things, Think, Wanted
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Author: Helen KellerTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Inspired, Learning, Soul, Strengthen, Success, Suffering
It hurts that, you know, the media’s made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I don’t have any feelings, and, you know, it hurts like anyone else.
Author: Paris HiltonTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Hurts, Meaningful, Media
Politics ruins the character.
Author: Otto von BismarckTopics: Character, Famous, Meaningful, Politics, Ruins
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Author: Helen KellerTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Success, Visions
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Character, Charge, Dressed, Drinking, Drinking Alcohol, Drunk, Drunk man, Fact, Factor, Making a Decision, Man, True, True nature
So, you who wish to have an exemplary character before God and before men, remember that, if ill company does not burn you to your hurt, it is sure to blacken you by damaging your reputation.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Character, Community, Company, Compare, Damage, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, God, God willing, Hurtful, Life, Meaningful
Because motivation pervades all action, it is important that we have a positive motivation. Whatever we are involved in, whether it’s politics, education, medicine, law, engineering, science, business or industry, the nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Character, Famous, Meaningful, Motivation
The great matter is not how long you pray, but how earnestly you pray. Consider the life of the prayer rather than the length of the prayer. If your prayer reaches to heaven it is long enough.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Heaven, Length, Life, Meaningful, Moral character, Players, Reaching, React
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Character, Forget, Forgive, Good, Help, Helpful, Love interest, Love Life, Loved, Lovemaking, Remember
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Author: Napoleon BonaparteTopics: Ambition, Character, Courage, Depends, Endowed, Famous, Good, Great, Passion, Principles
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Author: George Bernard ShawTopics: Character, Famous, Friendship, Individuals, Inspirational, Reciprocity, Relationship, Trust, Worth
Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Character, Famous, Measured, True
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them.
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Maintaining, Meaningful, Power, Powerful, Strength
Science is not perfect. It’s often misused; it’s only a tool, but it’s the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.
Author: Carl SaganTopics: Changeable, Character, Everything, Impossible, Perfect, Science, Scientific, Self, Self Belief
Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Character, Exciting, Famous, Human, Improvement, Meaningful, Program, Society’s
This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing
Author: Carl JungTopics: Changeable, Character, Choose, Experiences, Expression, Famous, Feelings, Good Times, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Times
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
Author: Muhammad IqbalTopics: Alone, Capable, Character, Experience, Universal
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Character, Education, Something, Supply, Support, Supporters
Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I’m trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I’ve fought to obviously get all of them approved.
Author: Melanie MartinezTopics: Character, Create, Famous, Meaningful, Music, Music Videos, Obviously, Videos
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Topics: Character, Children, Color, Dream, Famous, Meaningful, Nation
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Character, Knowledge, Power, Resourceful, respected
Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they’ll become… habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Character, Famous, Habits, Inspirational, Meaningful
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Character, Famous, Inspirational, Reputation
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Character, Country, Duty, Experiences, Famous, Honor, Inspirational, Leadership, Self-Perception
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
Author: Ayn RandTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Money, Respect
The only freedom that exists is of a metaphysical character. In the physical world freedom is an impossibility
Author: Arthur SchopenhauerTopics: Character, Famous, Freedom, Impossible, Life, Metaphysical
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character
Author: Arthur SchopenhauerTopics: Character, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Reveals
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless… We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities
Author: Arthur AsheTopics: Character, Education, Famous, Feelings, Life, Look, Meaningful, Nothing, Poverty, Women, Wonder
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Author: Arnold SchwarzeneggerTopics: Character, Famous, Flight, Life, Meaningful, Physical, Strong
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty – he has suffered longer.
Author: Mae WestTopics: Character, Famous, Meaningful, Suffered
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which is never advisable
Author: Oscar WildeTopics: Character, Engagement, Famous, Life, Marriage, Meaningful, Opportunity
The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Character, Famous, Humanity, Knowledge, Meaningful, Morality, Politics, Principles, Sacrifice, Science, Violence, Wealth, Work
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Character, Famous, Meaningful, Ornament, Purity
Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I’ll wear wigs, I’ll wear nose pieces, I’ll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I’ll do whatever I need to do to create a character.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Actors, Character, Famous, Feelings, Lenses, Meaningful, Work
I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don’t want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Character, Connection, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Raising, Secrets, Understanding
I find it inspiring and I always think when I’m working on something new, whether it’s a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Camera, Character, Famous, Inspiring, Meaningful
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I’m reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Imagination, Meaningful, Mind, Triggers
When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I’m not too worried about where the camera is or positions.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Character, Famous, Meaningful
The fact that ‘Astro Boy’ appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Character, Fact, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character “The Hulk” became big, green, and ugly.
Author: Neil deGrasse TysonTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Meaningful
Our characters are the result of our conduct
Author: AristotleTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Results
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Author: AristotleTopics: Character, Effective, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Personal Expression
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
Author: Billy GrahamTopics: Character, Children, Legacy, Life, Materials, Money
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Author: Billy GrahamTopics: Character, Health, Something, Wealth
The distinctive Western character begins with the Greeks, who invented the habit of deductive reasoning and the science of geometry.
Author: Bertrand RussellTopics: Character, Invented, Science
The way you make an omelet reveals your character
Author: Anthony BourdainTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Food, Life, Meaningful
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have
Author: Anthony BourdainTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Life, Skill
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have
Author: Anthony BourdainTopics: Character, Decision, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Skill, Taught
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Author: Les BrownTopics: Character, Famous, Manifest, Motivational, Small
Anyhow, I’ve learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you’ve had a jolly good row with them—only can you judge their true characters
Author: Anne FrankTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Judge, Learned, Life, True
I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Character, Dinner, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Personal, Personal Life, Time
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Character, Fame, Famous, Feelings, Life, Like, Perception, Play, Public
I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Happy, Life, Meaningful, Try
Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
Author: Leonard CohenTopics: Character, Famous, Identity
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.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Character, Easy, Famous, Meaningful, Notice
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Absence, Character, Famous, Meaningful, Peace, Strength, Strengthen
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements
Author: Anais NinTopics: Ability, Change, Character, Courage, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Knowing, Knowledge, Life, Meaningful, Truly, Trust
The most decided men of character are often those whose inferiority in talent prevents them from being self-confident
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Change, Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Self-Confidence, Self-Expression, Talent, Task
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
Author: B.F. SkinnerTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fight, Good, Index, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Treat
Man’s characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social.
Author: B.F. SkinnerTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Human, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Moral, Physical, Physical Objects, Positive, Privileges, Social
I really don’t know what I’m doing… I don’t. It’s terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that’s all I really do.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Learn, Self-Doubt
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Character, Courage, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Forever, Human Being, Inspirational, Learning, Least Reason, Life, Meaningful, Ordinary, Organization, Positive, Reason, Recognised, Social, social Life, Victim
I couldn’t deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y’know?
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Character, Motorcycles, Passion, Riding, Strength, Uncomfortable
Change of habit cannot alter Nature
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Change, Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nature
That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
Author: Morgan FreemanTopics: Actors, Character, Human, Job, Part, Real, Understand
Anyone I’m with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Character, Famous, Freedom, Inspirational, Partner, Quality, Understanding
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn’t appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can’t see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
Author: Morgan FreemanTopics: Character, Drawn, Effective
Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Access, Character, Choice, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Personal Values, Speak, Special, True Self, Truth
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered
Author: AeschylusTopics: Ability, Character, Environment, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Friend, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive
Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I’m not an actor who can just play the kid.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Capabilities, Capacity, Character, Versatility
Change your thoughts and you change your world
Author: AeschylusTopics: Change, Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Thankful, Things, Thoughts, World
I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can’t or don’t do in my normal everyday life.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Act, Character, Desire, Experiences, Extraordinary, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Like, Normal Life, Play, Wish
I love science fiction, but I have a hard time feeling for characters in a galaxy far away. Choosing movies is the one thing in my life where there’s no compromising.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Challenging, Character, Famous, Love, Science Fiction
Don’t think for a moment that I’m really like any of the characters I’ve played. I’m not. That’s why it’s called ‘acting’.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Character, Famous, Moment, Positive, Thinking
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Chance, Character, Experiences, Famous, Motivation, Opportunity, Portraying
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Character, Great, Inspire People, Intellect, Intellectual, Million People, People, Science, Succeed Greatly
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. It’s a great outlet. As for myself, I’m not sure who I am. It seems that I change every day.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Paid, Personal Appearance, Personal Fulfillment, Personal Growth, Personal Identity, Positive, Positive Change, Self-Discovery, Self-Improvement
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Character, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Weak, Weaken, Weakness
To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
Author: Albert CamusTopics: Challenge, Character, Experiences, Eyes, Famous, Feelings, Life, Never
It’s surreal to think that people come up to me and say, ‘Do the voice, do the voice!
Author: Adam sandlerTopics: Challenge, Character, Famous, Feelings, Life, Test, Thankful, Thinking
I like to play the characters that are the center of attention and have an edge
Author: Adam sandlerTopics: Character, Famous, Feelings, Life, Perception, Performance
No matter what type of leader you are or how widespread your influence, you face personal temptations, challenges, and stresses. And only a foundation of character will sustain you and your leadership.
Author: Myles MunroeTopics: Challenge, Character, Foundation, Stress
A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.
Author: Myles MunroeTopics: Character, Compassion, Money, Poor, Women
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
Author: Myles MunroeTopics: Character, Poor, Solid
You need to learn independence. You have to be independent—it builds character.
Author: Mike TysonTopics: Build, Character, Independence, Learn
No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, YOU are beautiful.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Character, Clear-Minded, Creativity, Emotion, Express, Facts, Feeling, Journey
Champions do not become champions when they win an event, but in the hours, weeks, and months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely a demonstration of their championship character.
Author: Michael JordanTopics: Championship, Character, Victorious, Weak
I don’t believe I have a playboy life.
Author: Lewis HamiltonTopics: Character, Disbelief, Dissatisfaction, Play Boy
Money can run out but talent is forever.
Author: Lady GagaTopics: Absence, Character, Facts, Famous, Meaningful Impact, Positive, Talent