Quotes on Character

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.

Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

The true athlete should have character, not be a character

When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

Music is a defining element of character.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.