I think I find new idols every day – someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see...

It doesn’t really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

…there is a danger of churning out students who are rapid processors of information but may not necessarily be more reflective, thoughtful, and able to give sustained consideration to the information that matters most.

I like me better naked. I don’t mean that in a vain way… When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don’t have any...

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.

I’m probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what’s not in the character, until I’m left with what is. If that makes...

The way a person spends his money and time can tell a lot about the things he or she values.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To...

As a writer, as much as I try, I can’t stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There’s so much wonderful gray matter...

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our...

The end of knowledge is LOVE. ‘ The end of education is character.

Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of...

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair – we rise and we shine, ’cause it’s like that’!

When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don’t give your enemies that.” Solin, character in The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character

The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPotent, helplessAnd with one word of truth or treacheryHe will save or damn the earthBecause he is mad...

It’s in his character. He wants to be that guy. He wants to carry that load, and that’s a special characteristic to have.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A PERSON IN SEEN WHEN HE/SHE IS ALONE…

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

I feel like ‘Gossip Girl’ isn’t really ‘Gossip Girl’ anymore when they’re away at school because they don’t go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much...

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

I did an episode on the TV show ‘Awake,’ and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s really hard.’ To do that so fast and to do that, if it’s very successful, for nine months out of the...

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

Most people make it difficult to understand with their lifestyle & stand especially to a helping hand if they don’t understand or they don’t want to understand as whom they should accept as their friend.

Real action without the passion is difficult, but the real passion without the compassion is impossible.

Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others’ values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.

A new you can still emerge from the old you.

Once you’ve figured out who you are and whose you are. You will no longer have any desire to hang around people who do not appreciate who you are.

You make the choice concerning who you associate with on a daily basis. Whenever there are people around you who continually gossip or nag, you have the option to entertain that nonsense or leave it...

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium,...

I’ve always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don’t really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

I’m just glad that I’m the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna’s gonna have to find something else to...

Our task is to take suffering in stride, not as if it is a pleasure (it isn’t), but in the knowledge that God will not let it overwhelm us and that He will use it,...

I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in...

That shows the character of this team. When we were down all year, we’d come back.

Why are some countries able, despite their very real and serious problems, to press ahead along the road to reconciliation, recovery, and redevelopment while others cannot? These are critical questions for Africa, and their answers...

There’s never been any game plan or thread through my career. It’s just happened that I’ve ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

I am myself for a living. I don’t animate a character.

When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.

Her flesh was powdery and voluptuously weary, as if tenderized by all the different beds and arms in which she had lain. Her face was as soft as the pulpy flash of an overripe banana,...

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the...