Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
Randy Harrison

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
Randy Harrison

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson

I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.
Sean Hannity

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
Alan Alda

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
Stevie Wonder

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
Paul Newman

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
Paul Newman

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Jimmy Johnson

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Mikhail Bakunin

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
Danielle Steel

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

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
Sandra Cisneros

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld