Quotes about character
character passion learning
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character. Aristotle
character self support
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
character sea earth
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
character giving quality
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
character people action
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
character soul theatre
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
character young should
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
character
We are what we frequently do.
character men class
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
character plot action
PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
character anxiety political
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
character meditation mind
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
character choices opinion
Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
character men trying
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. Ben Kingsley
character play trying
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
character roots behaviour
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
character personality indispensable
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. Alexis Carrel
character men hands
It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do. Alexis de Tocqueville
character political together
In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect, from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, every one abandons him and he remains alone.
character men numbers
If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.
character animal government
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
character people sides
I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous. Alexandre Aja
character age stuff
I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff. Alexei Sayle
characters relate
Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking. Issa Rae
character animal men
When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. Albert Schweitzer
character example examples games good last leadership learning prime takes tonight win
Like Dougie (Weight) says, it's learning to win again. It's doing the little things that it takes to win, tonight was a prime example of that. The last two games were good examples of a lot of the leadership and a lot of the character in the room.
characters mistake
Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing, Michael Shea
character drive floor length number situations
Luke's number will be called in situations like that. He showed a lot of character to drive the length of the floor and score.
characters consumers convince early excessive glamorous lucky men morally nicely possible repugnant sort stereotype strikes
'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.' George Lois
character length major phil strong sure time
To be without Phil for such a length of time is a major setback, but he is a strong character and I am sure he will come back from this. Rob Andrew
characters good gray
Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white. Harlan Coben
characters goes hard morning playing time wonderful
Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.
character
I made the character as much of myself as I could. Gil Gerard