Character Quotes · Page 319

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.

— Rick Warren

“face not determines beauty….. character determines beauty mind determines love………”

— SHANY MATHEW

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

— Christian Bale

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

— Dave Dravecky

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

— James Martineau

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

— Anonymous

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.

— Tom Hanks

You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun…

— Sophie Turner

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for…

— Anonymous

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for…

— Baruch Spinoza

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need…

— Rowan Atkinson

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try…

— Bailee Madison

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and…

— Kate Atkinson

“The only truth is the truth of the now. ' there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.'…

— Rick Yancey

Getting to know God by His names is more than simply learning a new word or discovering a new title He goes…

— Tony Evans

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of…

— Albert Schweitzer

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they…

— Ida Tarbell

Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your…

— Ron Perlman

You don't get roles like leading character in 'Christine' very often because people don't really like women on film to be unlikable.…

— Rebecca Hall

No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no…

— George Washington

There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When…

— Jack Kirby

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that…

— Samuel Johnson

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the…

— Brad Thor

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

— Emily Bronte

“Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.”

— James Carlos Blake

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

— David Bowie

I don't mind being the funny character rather than the glamorous one, although I'm happy to do both.

— Alyson Hannigan

“Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving.Be aware!”

— Mehnaz Ansari

“Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!”

— W.O. Makora

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

— Eric Bana

“Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.”

— Jonathan Haidt

Before Dad passed, we talked so much about the Goldust character, what it grew into, and how much he was proud of…

— Goldust

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

— Tom Hanks

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

— Anonymous

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It”

— Ayn Rand