Character Quotes · Page 191

“Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.”

— Tobin Wilson

Your successes and failures does not best describe you, your character and attitude does.

— Anonymous

“Your thoughts build your attitude, character, and life to represent you in society.”

— Ehsan Sehgal

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

— Arsene Wenger

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

— Aristotle

Do you know how hard it is to play a character where youre always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

— Serinda Swan

I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.

— Kerry Bishe

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

— Thomas Paine

I've just got face: he looks like a brat. The 'I don't like face.' That's how I see it. And I'm not…

— Raheem Sterling

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

— Vladimir Putin

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think…

— Daniel H. Pink

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat…

— Michael B. Jordan

Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character…

— Muhtar Kent

So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted…

— Molly Antopol

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my…

— Michael Fassbender

“The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose,…

— Charles Dickens

In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their…

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I push myself as hard as I can. Sometimes that can be painful and stressful but inthe end it's worth the price...…

— Kristen Stewart

What really sells a fight, and any kind of action, is the performance of it. If someone is uncomfortable or uncertain about…

— Zoe Bell

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it…

— Andrew Solomon

Most of the ethical dilemmas that I have faced have all been in the category of, you know, I know something and…

— Reid Hoffman

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

— David Anders

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

— Sarah Silverman

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

— Julie Garwood

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

— Catherine Hardwicke

When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

— Vera Farmiga

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

— Homer

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

— Joseph Addison

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

— Les Brown

I'd love to do a comedy like 'Bridesmaids;' I think that would be so fun. I would play the Kristen Wiig character.

— Emma Roberts

“Are you going to judge a person's character by the mistakes they made on a few bad dates or by their achievements?”

— Steven Magee

Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.

— Sebastian Stan

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.

— Jeff Fortenberry

I get attracted to projects because of the script or the idea and the basic character.

— Sharmila Tagore

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

— Geoff Rickly