Character Quotes · Page 275

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

— Voltaire

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

— Fran Drescher

Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

— John Wooden

When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character.

— Sean Hayes

“Standard is not the money you have nor the creed you belong to ,truly IT IS CHARACTER…”

— Zainab Asif

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

— Daryl Hannah

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

— John Adams

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof…

— Samuel Smiles

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your…

— R. Lee Ermey

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be…

— Rashida Jones

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of…

— Jon Weber

I'm used to playing characters that are so different to me and I love that; it's my safety blanket and I hide…

— Sacha Dhawan

All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one…

— Pema Chodron

Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters…

— Bob Hope

“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even…

— Ryan Holiday

Sacrifice is greater than love; Character is greater than beauty; Humanity is greater than wealth; But nothing is greater than a sincere…

— Anonymous

I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“I've no personality,' I would tell myself. My curiosity embraced everything; I believed in an absolute truth, in the need for moral…

— Simone de Beauvoir

God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always…

— L. Tom Perry

There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in…

— Samuel Johnson

Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as…

— Danielle Dutton

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would…

— Penelope Cruz

Peace should be a hallmark of the godly person, first because it is a Godlike trait: God is called the God of…

— Jerry Bridges

Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what…

— H. L. Mencken

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

— Margaret Atwood

“Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased”

— Oliver Goldsmith

The aim of the receipts may be virtue, sin, much closer to the work you do

— Mak_786

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

— George Chapman

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

— Sophie Marceau

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

— Harry Connick, Jr

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

— Joseph Addison

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

— Richard Steele

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

— Vernon Howard

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

— C. S. Lewis

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

— Saadi

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

— Jane Seymour

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

— John Ortberg

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

— Grimes