Character Quotes · Page 330

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

— Jared Harris

Character is a word that seems to define almost all human activity and then some

— Richard Reeves

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

— James Rachels

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

— Maria Montessori

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

— Henry David Thoreau

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

— William Wilberforce

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time…

— Ben Whishaw

There are seven things that will destroy us, Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Religion without sacrifice, Politics without…

— Anonymous

The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is…

— Francis Alexander Durivage

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Hence while in respect of its substance and the definition that states what it really is in essence virtue is the observance…

— Aristotle

TV is providing such amazing possibilities - you have such lively characters, fantastic stories and ambiguous messages, and viewers feel very satisfied.

— Fedor Bondarchuk

Any kind of run-of-the-mill flaws that are easily solved, to me, are boring. Situational flaws, for example. I like flaws that are…

— Will Arnett

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Even if the film doesn't come out quite as you'd hoped, the process can also be very rewarding. I feel that way…

— Rebecca Hall

“ Father, we are uniquely capable of morality. We must be moral, because we can be moral. He stood very still as…

— C.E. Morgan

I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has…

— Billy Graham

Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice…

— Barack Obama

In the beginning, I was always playing some kind of gangbanger and the token Mexican dude who didn't have a lot of…

— Michael Pena

Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness,…

— Hugh Black

I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue…

— Sarah Fielding

I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty!

— Aaron Chan

I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist.

— Jason Witten

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you cant practice any other virtue consistently.

— Anonymous

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

— Donald Miller

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

— Daniel Schacter

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right…

— Alice Hoffman

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

— David O. McKay

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who…

— Nat Wolff

“By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to…

— C.S. Lewis

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

— Bill Condon

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

— Neil Macdonald

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

— Confucius