Quotes about character
character people challenges
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges. Michael Josephson
character want pay
Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it's doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It's being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.
character noble adherence
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.
character purpose true-happiness
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.
character unique opportunity
The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me. Michael J. Fox
character play acting
There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.
character time-keeping giving
I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character. Martha Plimpton
character thinking culture
Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
character dark woods
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
character journey different
Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is. Mark Ruffalo
character people trying
When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.
character
Character is what you have when nobody is looking. Marie Dressler
character writing important
It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story. Marge Piercy
character thinking different
I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.
character mind doorways
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.
character cat quirky
I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.
character people fields
A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop. Terrell Owens
character years people
What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people. Ted Shackelford
character warrior facts
I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications. Ted Cruz
character joy heaven
The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties. Theodore Parker
character
I learn by going where I have to go. Theodore Roethke
character underestimate importance
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character. Theodore Roosevelt
character names perfection
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.
character color land
The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.
character vigor intellect
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
character important resolution
Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.
character mean men
There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.
character men nations
It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.
character law self
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
character individual indispensable
Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.
character two race
In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.
character men careers
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
character birth-place principles
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.