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Character Quotes


"...a character that I can admire as a person is a character I'll probably"

Full 'Andy Garcia' Quote   Source: Andy Garcia
"A character is a completely fashioned will."

Full 'Novalis' Quote   Source: Novalis
"A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it..."

Full 'Charles de Gaulle' Quote   Source: Charles de Gaulle
"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and"

Full 'Frederick Douglass' Quote   Source: Frederick Douglass
"habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the..."

Full 'Hosea Ballou' Quote   Source: Hosea Ballou
"A team that has character doesn't need stimulation"

Full 'Tom Landry' Quote   Source: Tom Landry
"may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you here..."

Full 'John Wooden' Quote   Source: John Wooden
"etchings of experience and the firm line of character...."

Full 'Clarence Day' Quote   Source: Clarence Day
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your..."

Full 'John Wooden' Quote   Source: John Wooden
"comes from inner security and strong character...."

Full 'Jane Seymour' Quote   Source: Jane Seymour
"have any resentment. It built a lot of character in me."

Full 'Santino Rice' Quote   Source: Santino Rice
"self-control you can develop greatness of character..."

Full 'Grenville Kleiser' Quote   Source: Grenville Kleiser
"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."

Full 'Faith Baldwin' Quote   Source: Faith Baldwin
"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades."

Full 'Jacqueline Bisset' Quote   Source: Jacqueline Bisset
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what..."

Full 'Abraham Lincoln' Quote   Source: Abraham Lincoln
"Character is made by what you stand for; reputation, by what you fall for."

Full 'Robert Quillen' Quote   Source: Robert Quillen
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

Full 'Thomas Paine' Quote   Source: Thomas Paine
"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."

Full 'Booker T. Washington' Quote   Source: Booker T. Washington
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and..."

Full 'Meryl Streep' Quote   Source: Meryl Streep
"children tends towards the formation of character...."

Full 'Hosea Ballou' Quote   Source: Hosea Ballou
"personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him...."

Full 'Mel Brooks' Quote   Source: Mel Brooks
"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes..."

Full 'Charles de Gaulle' Quote   Source: Charles de Gaulle
"wings. Only one thing endures and that is character...."

Full 'Horace Greeley' Quote   Source: Horace Greeley
"are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some..."

Full 'Lauren Bacall' Quote   Source: Lauren Bacall
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,..."

Full 'Sam Ewing' Quote   Source: Sam Ewing
"turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation...."

Full 'Cynthia Heimel' Quote   Source: Cynthia Heimel
"History is a capricious character. It depends on who writes it."

Full 'Mikhail Gorbachev' Quote   Source: Mikhail Gorbachev
"fulfillment is a measure of a person's character...."

Full 'Susan Minot' Quote   Source: Susan Minot
"the staring defects in other people's characters...."

Full 'Margaret Halsey' Quote   Source: Margaret Halsey
"the staring defects in other people's characters...."

Full 'Cynthia Heimel' Quote   Source: Cynthia Heimel
"am confident that with the wholesome character of our American people,..."

Full 'George Allen' Quote   Source: George Allen
"I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first..."

Full 'Spike Lee' Quote   Source: Spike Lee
"well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually..."

Full 'Nathaniel Emmons' Quote   Source: Nathaniel Emmons
"do not like assassins, or men of low character."

Full 'Gene Hackman' Quote   Source: Gene Hackman
"I do not outline my books; the characters direct the story as I write. They"

Full 'Patricia Cornwell' Quote   Source: Patricia Cornwell
"the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man...."

Full 'George Washington' Quote   Source: George Washington
"what he was, and see him as this Alfie character who sleeps with women and..."

Full 'Sienna Miller' Quote   Source: Sienna Miller
"their skin, but by the content of their character...."

Full 'Martin Luther King' Quote   Source: Martin Luther King
"I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a..."

Full 'Dr Seuss' Quote   Source: Dr Seuss
"I think the land is always a character. In Appalachia, there's a very great..."

Full 'Sharyn Mccrumb' Quote   Source: Sharyn Mccrumb
"looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life...."

Full 'Jacqueline Bisset' Quote   Source: Jacqueline Bisset
"complexity. The reason I play so many dark characters is because there is..."

Full 'Billy Zane' Quote   Source: Billy Zane
"I find a lot of similarities with my character. Obsession has many..."

Full 'Jake Gyllenhaal' Quote   Source: Jake Gyllenhaal
"guy, and just like other aspects of my character, I?ve had no choice but to..."

Full 'Robert Downey Jr' Quote   Source: Robert Downey Jr
"If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the"

Full 'William Thackery' Quote   Source: William Thackery
"activity is a danger to the building of character."

Full 'Joseph Goebbels' Quote   Source: Joseph Goebbels
"It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close."

Full 'Jesse Owens' Quote   Source: Jesse Owens
"zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it,..."

Full 'Jack Lemmon' Quote   Source: Jack Lemmon
"most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous..."

Full 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky' Quote   Source: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art...."

Full 'Walter Hagen' Quote   Source: Walter Hagen
"cynical world, and maybe I'm a rough character."

Full 'Kevin Costner' Quote   Source: Kevin Costner
"It's nice to play a character that isn't that close to yourself."

Full 'Johnny Depp' Quote   Source: Johnny Depp
"much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get..."

Full 'Anne Tyler' Quote   Source: Anne Tyler
"a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without..."

Full 'Norman Schwarzkopf' Quote   Source: Norman Schwarzkopf
"them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character...."

Full 'Emile Durkheim' Quote   Source: Emile Durkheim
"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high..."

Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote   Source: Max Beerbohm
"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think"

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"religion, being of an exceedin' accomodatin' character"

Full 'Artemus Ward' Quote   Source: Artemus Ward
"adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Full 'Abraham Lincoln' Quote   Source: Abraham Lincoln
"circumstances can repair a defect of character."

Full 'Ralph Waldo Emerson' Quote   Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
"None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be..."

Full 'Anna Paquin' Quote   Source: Anna Paquin
"quantity of words and actions for their character...."

Full 'Robert Musil' Quote   Source: Robert Musil
"before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If..."

Full 'James Garfield' Quote   Source: James Garfield
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

Full 'H. Jackson Brown' Quote   Source: H. Jackson Brown
"paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own..."

Full 'Anne Frank' Quote   Source: Anne Frank
"Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large..."

Full 'Henry David Thoreau' Quote   Source: Henry David Thoreau
"live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior..."

Full 'Angela Davis' Quote   Source: Angela Davis
"Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing."

Full 'Michael Iapoce' Quote   Source: Michael Iapoce
"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and"

Full 'Thomas Paine' Quote   Source: Thomas Paine
"imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote   Source: James Russell Lowell
"mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a..."

Full 'Tennessee Williams' Quote   Source: Tennessee Williams
"Sports do not build character; they reveal it..."

Full 'John Wooden' Quote   Source: John Wooden
"Style is the image of character."

Full 'Edward Gibbon' Quote   Source: Edward Gibbon
"of body than upon strength of mind and character...."

Full 'Arnold Palmer' Quote   Source: Arnold Palmer
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human"

Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote   Source: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who..."

Full 'Abigail Van Buren' Quote   Source: Abigail Van Buren
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral..."

Full 'Leon Trotsky' Quote   Source: Leon Trotsky
"past, the closer I am to forging my own character...."

Full 'Isabelle Eberhardt' Quote   Source: Isabelle Eberhardt
"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Full 'Anne Frank' Quote   Source: Anne Frank
"The highest qualities of character must be earned."

Full 'Lyman Abbott' Quote   Source: Lyman Abbott
"in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life..."

Full 'John Keats' Quote   Source: John Keats
"The man that makes a character, makes foes."

Full 'Edward Young' Quote   Source: Edward Young
"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred"

Full 'William Ralph Inge' Quote   Source: William Ralph Inge
"stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character...."

Full 'John King Fairbank' Quote   Source: John King Fairbank
"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."

Full 'Joshua Reynolds' Quote   Source: Joshua Reynolds
"without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality,..."

Full 'Mahatma Gandhi' Quote   Source: Mahatma Gandhi
"active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it..."

Full 'Anais Nin' Quote   Source: Anais Nin
"scripts I've read where I really like the character but there might be some..."

Full 'Cameron Diaz' Quote   Source: Cameron Diaz
"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."

Full 'David Lloyd George' Quote   Source: David Lloyd George
"permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to..."

Full 'Sir Walter Scott' Quote   Source: Sir Walter Scott
"Things to remember: 1) The worth of character; 2) The improvement of..."

Full 'Marshall Field' Quote   Source: Marshall Field
"action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes..."

Full 'Tyron Edwards' Quote   Source: Tyron Edwards
"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it..."

Full 'Katharine Hepburn' Quote   Source: Katharine Hepburn
"flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."

Full 'Oscar Levant' Quote   Source: Oscar Levant
"habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it..."

Full 'Frank Outlaw' Quote   Source: Frank Outlaw
"when it is perceived transfiguring human character, and most easily attain..."

Full 'Evelyn Underhill' Quote   Source: Evelyn Underhill
"us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our"

Full 'Euripides' Quote   Source: Euripides
"have their own ideas and wants for their characters...."

Full 'Alec Baldwin' Quote   Source: Alec Baldwin
"take care of, protect and encourage the character I play. And that's my..."

Full 'Holly Hunter' Quote   Source: Holly Hunter
"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees...."

Full 'Edna O'brien' Quote   Source: Edna O'brien
"life would be interesting based on the characters I'd chosen. I don't feel..."

Full 'Brad Pitt' Quote   Source: Brad Pitt
"When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does..."

Full 'Luigi Pirandello' Quote   Source: Luigi Pirandello
"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older,"

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly"

Full 'Ronald Reagan' Quote   Source: Ronald Reagan
"The only thing you can control is your character...."

Full 'Wayne Dyer' Quote   Source: Wayne Dyer