Character Quotes · Page 358

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

— William J. H. Boetcker

You attract people by the qualities you display. You keep them by the qualities you possess.

— Babloo

“I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.”

— Julie Orringer

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

— Edward Gibbon

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

— Nathalie Emmanuel

I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

A lot of character writing for gay people is talking about trauma. It's nice to - instead of playing trauma - get…

— E. R. Fightmaster

It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The Villain wasn't necessarily something I sat down and thought, 'Oh this is going to be my character.' It's most like other…

— Marty Scurll

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the…

— Don Roff

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like…

— Vin Diesel

I've got a New Zealand film coming out here called Out of the Blue. It's a very heavy story, and it's the…

— Karl Urban

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last.…

— Charles Dickens

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I know that sounds contradictory - you're going on a journey, but once you know who your characters are, you become more…

— Kim Longinotto

“A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself the practice of…

— John le Carré

“When the superior man has free course with his principles, that is what we call his success; when such course is denied,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld,…

— Sivananda

I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He…

— John Leguizamo

“[W]isdom is the child of integrity—being integrated around principles. And integrity is the child of humility and courage. In fact, you could…

— Stephen R. Covey

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent…

— Arthur Helps

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and…

— Albert Schweitzer

Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has…

— Ellen Key

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

— Aristotle

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

— Michael Biehn

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

— Teresa of Avila

Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit.

— Kazuo Koike

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

— Lady Randolph Churchill

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

— Anonymous

The story of 'Lalpan Bibi' impressed me and my character also. It has all the ingredients of a great commercial masala movie.

— Mukesh Tiwari

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

— Karl Lagerfeld

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

— William Hazlitt

“The Moral Sense Test developed by Harvard psychologists in 2003 can be found online at: moral.wjh.harvard.edu”

— Thomas Cathcart

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

— Anton Corbijn

Good looks should never become a part of your internal character.

— Hrithik Roshan

I loved Winnie the Pooh, the Disney character, and I loved his wit and warmth.

— Kelly Macdonald

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

— Karl Kraus

...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

— Clayton Christensen

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

— James M. Barrie