Character Quotes - page 2

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Mary Tyler Moore
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
Evan Esar
Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
Alexis de Tocqueville
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer
Shy and proud men ... are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. (Henry Taylor)
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.
Helena Bonham Carter
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
Charles Barkley
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, [but] every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
Albert Finney
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. (Willa Cather)
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse