Character Quotes

Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Rush Limbaugh

Leadership, Matters, Descends

Character is destiny.
Heraclitus

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller

Important, Young, Reputation

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.
Charles Stanley

God, Children, Blessings

Habits change into character.
Ovid

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
Martha Plimpton

Joke, Culture, Line

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Hal Holbrook

Nothing, Him, Moment

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

Love, Marriage, Live

A man's character is his guardian divinity.
Heraclitus

Divinity, Guardian

The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander

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

Courage, Rest, Seem

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper

Nothing, After, Try

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Grenville Kleiser

Greatness, Develop, Constant

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
Kim Kardashian

Famous, Yourself, Pressure

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Christopher Hitchens

Great, Moral, High

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beautiful, Evil, Loved

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino

Trying, Study, Wanted

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
Quentin Tarantino

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Richard M. Nixon

Learn, Defeat, Survive

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
J. C. Watts

Hard, Everyone, Looking

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Edward Hopper

Art, Greatest, Said

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky

Life, Strength, Human

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Death, Both, Might

Character is more important than talent.
Edwin Louis Cole

Important, Talent

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
Heinrich Heine

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
Cat Stevens

Doubt, Trying, Since

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Fact, Evidence, Newspaper

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?
Jennifer Aniston

Start, She, Walk

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Tobey Maguire

Life, Beauty, Peace

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
Justin Bieber

Person, Made, Become

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