Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face. — Anne Hathaway
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate… — Jean-Paul Marat
Nothing discloses character like the use of power. — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil. — Aristotle
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction.… — Dale Carnegie
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it. — F L Lucas
One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal. — Richard Livingstone
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward… — Laura Schlessinger
Never say never - and I certainly don't judge anyone who does it. But most of the characters I play are going through some kind… — Naomi Watts
It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private… — Frederick Scott Oliver
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. — Goldwin Smith
[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as… — Donald Trump
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success. — Robert Kiyosaki
I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love… — Rachel McAdams
There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a… — Liam Neeson
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. — Charles Simmons
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example… — Athenagoras of Athens
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the… — Plato
How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of… — David Hume
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the… — David Hume
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,… — Plato
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood.… — Eudora Welty
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the… — Jean-Georges Noverre

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