I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what’s fun about him is that he doesn’t care about anyone else, and it’s very difficult for a main character – a lead...

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were of common occurrence. The vast majority of these people, government servants, planters, and...

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete...

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do...

My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It...

The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can’t be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that...

A person who truly values his own and others’ good deeds besides the great original words that heed to take care of all, only perhaps knows what he actually needs in life to lead his...

The best compliment for a man is to be treated like a true leader; one who is real, correct and righteous in his approach, attitude, temperament, behavior and most importantly, character.

If you truly have character and respecting others is your core value, you respect everybody regardless of who they are, what they believe and how they behave…

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer....

You can tell a lot about a man’s character by how he behaves when given anonymity..

I’ve never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I’m a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I’m really Desperate Dan.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There’s a period of mourning for me, definitely.

I used to love ‘Murphy Brown’ as a kid. I didn’t even understand half of the jokes that were going on, but I loved the character so much that they stood out.

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.

For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their...

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

Thou shalt not steal.

Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, ‘You could stick a gold through your front teeth!’ Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But...

I’m a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment’s notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time,...

Hang on! God will strength in any act of your pursuit.

It is not grey hair that makes one respectable but character.

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

I couldn’t bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.

It was a great game, obviously. I’m proud of our players. Guys with lesser character would have been too down to show up to play or would have panicked when things were going against us.

No.”Of course not. Because it would totally ruin his whole mysterious vibe. Can’t have that.

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don’t apply are equally valuable because they...

There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares – like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

But if Crake wanted her to stay longer on any given night, do it again maybe, she’d make some excuse—jet lag, a headache, something plausible. Her inventions were seamless, she was the best poker-faced liar...

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you’re playing.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate – look to his character.

I don’t know if you can step out of character. This is a group of kids that’s level-headed, they realize how big things are and how important things are, but they have fun. They’ve taught...

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Playing a character who’s dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.