Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know? — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new. — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When it rains, it pours, and sometimes life is full of thunderstorms and high winds. It is in these high stress situations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always… — 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle Eustace Percy Copy Share Image
Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve… — Ela Bhatt Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I saw Ben Whishaw playing Hamlet at the Old Vic and straight away had a very strong sense that he might be… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, I think that if you are making a lot of television programs with a central character, then ultimately it can… — Geraldine McEwan Copy Share Image
Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
