Quotes about Character

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

Kind hearts are more than coronets / And simple faith than Norman blood.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

The best of men are just men at best.

It is our response to temptation that leads us down the path of righteousness or into the dead end of disobedience.

The Puritan Thomas Brooks once wrote, "We know metals by their tinkling, and men by their talking."[113

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

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.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.