Quotes about Character

If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful.

Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today

LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE This isn't a politically correct position to have, but I'm convinced that the lack of moral character in many black men is the primary cause of the breakdown of the black family, high crime rates, domestic violence, and other social problems within the black community.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt to slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.