Quotes about Character
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
— Aristotle
Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.
— Aristotle
Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.
— Aristotle
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
— Aristotle
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
— Aristotle
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
— Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.
— Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
— Aristotle
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
— Cicero
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.
— Holly Hunter
My character on 'The Crazy Ones' is entirely different than Bob Benson. If these guys ran into each other at a bar, I don't think they'd have much to talk about. They're really different guys.
— James Wolk