Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.

Anything that’s different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it’s driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards...

It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better to be respected.

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our...

When people look at local government, they’re not looking at party affiliation or ideology. They’re looking at the character of their local officials and the quality of services they receive. I guess we could throw...

There’s something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

A man has the strength to face what he is thrown in life. If he falls or is beaten, he does not complain but gets up and rides in to face the challenge once more.

Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands.

The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes. Guess what for toxic friends…!

You get to follow the same character through a lot of the same ups and downs that you go through in your own life. I can’t imagine any place else where you get to do...

Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself.

We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are...

It is important this campaign be waged on a higher level of dignity and character. We will continue to move forward with our positive message for Pennsylvania.

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.

• you should improve your character, because it’s belong to your destiny ♥

I’m in this new Showtime series called ‘Ray Donovan.’ I play this guy Stu Feldman who runs Paramount Pictures, so the total opposite to this character.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

This is a great football game against a very good football team. A lot of character, a lot of heart out there today on both sides of the ball — that’s what makes it special,...

There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now...

A ‘real’ person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have...

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We’re really trying to open that discussion and get towns to cooperate.

Character is the main object of education.

I’m not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

You’re still alive. That means you’re winning.

Civility is a sign of character, and believe me, Vivian and Javad had a lot of character.

Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones

What’s in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who’ve owned it before you.

I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.

If I’m to have a character that others admire, I need to focus on developing that character. I need to make decisions that are honorable and honest. I need to focus on others rather than...

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

If character is lost, all is lost.

Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character – a living being – within each of my books.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.

The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character—what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn’t take notice.

I don’t act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don’t transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn’t that kid anymore, and I wasn’t a character...