Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions. — Myles Munroe
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is simply habit long continued. — Plutarch
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. — J. C. Watts
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion. — Sayings
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. — J. August Strindberg
The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent. — Al Swearengen
Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for. — Robert Quillen
Good moral character is the first essential in a man. — George Washington
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. — J. C. Watts
He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade. — Saint Augustine
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Unknown
Character is who you are when no one is looking. — Allan Williams
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness. — Seneca
You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior. — Sayings
Character is much easier kept than recovered. — Thomas Paine
Bad Character Image Quotes
A man of bad character punishes his own soul. — Al-Ghazali
We are what we believe we are.
My Bad Character Quotes
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. — Walter Anderson
I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that. — Gucci Mane
All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them. — Lon Chaney, Jr.
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. — Walter Inglis Anderson
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. — Walter Inglis Anderson
I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels. — Stephenie Meyer
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes. — Adelbert Von Chamisso
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque. — Albert Einstein
The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument. — Adam Sandler
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. — Edward Norton
Poor Character Quotes
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. — Abraham Lincoln
The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned. — Bryan Stevenson
People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves. — John C. Maxwell
When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.
A woman in love is a very poor judge of character. — J. G. Holland
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are ‘the poor heartbroken girl.’ That’s why I’m so proud of the Fast movies. I feel like Giselle is an empowering woman. — Gal Gadot
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion. — Myles Munroe
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition. — Anna Quindlen
He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed. — William Shakespeare
Good Character Quotes
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. — Anne Frank
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad. — Sonny Barger
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie
I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’ — Humphrey Bogart
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes. — Zachary Taylor
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
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. — Sri Swami Sivananda
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. — George Washington
Bad Person Quotes
I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for — Al Capone
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. — Abu Bakr
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. — Clarence Thomas
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra
To be yourself in a world that in constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer. — Marco Rubio
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop. — Kurt Cobain
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. — Wayne Dyer
Great Character Quotes
My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers — Nas
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. — Bernard Law Montgomery
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore. — Peter Brook
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. — William Halsey
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness. — Frederick the Great
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. — Jacqueline Bisset
Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it. — James Naismith
Character Design Quotes
Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage. — Peter Behrens
I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer. — Akira Toriyama
Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work. — Akira Toriyama
It's a pain to draw different-looking humans. — Akira Toriyama
'Dragon Ball''s villains were easy to draw: Piccolo, Freeza, Majin Boo. — Akira Toriyama
It was very easy to convince me to take on the job of character designer for 'Dragon Quest.' — Akira Toriyama
Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer. — Jeffrey Zeldman
The divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation; as there was no other beings existing antecedent thereto, to attract the mind of Jehovah; and we are sure that God is pursuing the same thing still, and always will. — Lemuel Haynes
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women. — Eric Gill
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. — Ambrose Bierce
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. — Benjamin Franklin
No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character. — Umar
I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up. — Yaya Han
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. — Walter Annenberg
I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out! — Lindsay Lohan
We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them. — Phillip E. Johnson
There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs. — R.J. Rushdoony
Not everybody is as bad as he is dressed. — Danish Proverbs
If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it. — Hunter Tylo
It’s easy to show up when it’s fun. It’s how you behave in the face of resistance that reveals character. Who do you want to be? How badly? It’s not about motivation - it’s about living deliberately. — Rich Roll
Kimbo Slice the man, you watch the YouTube videos of this guy in backyards, and they start fighting and you think this guy's a thug. You think he's a bad guy, you have this perception of him and then you meet him, it isn't true. It's the exact opposite. He's a really good guy. — Dana White
It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character. — James Terry White
People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It’s boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you’re a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character. — Mark Sutton
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. — David Ambrose
I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character. — Bobby Bowden
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear. — Dennis Hopper
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. — James Allen
A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character. — Norman Mailer
I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy. — Benjamin Mkapa
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny. — Dave Rowntree
Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player. — Gilbert Arenas
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death. — Thomas Bernhard
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. — Hosea Ballou
A jester, a bad character. — Blaise Pascal
A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find. — Bill Skarsgard
I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me. — Milla Jovovich
Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance. — Charlie Munger
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways. — Thomas Lickona
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma. — Amish Tripathi
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off. — W. H. Auden
Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to. — Matthew Macfadyen
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