Character Is More Important Quotes

#1. Ethics and Attitude Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are. Character is more important.

John Wooden

#2. Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

John Wooden

#3. For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Character is more important than talent.

Edwin Louis Cole

#5. The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Character is more important than rank.
Loyalty is more important than wealth.
And what the people who truly know you think, is more important than your status in the eyes of strangers.

Jeff Kurtti

#7. Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.

Michael Josephson

#8. What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#9. Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important.

Debasish Mridha

#10. When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.

William James Moore

#11. Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand-some better, some worse than others-but what's more important is how you play that hand. This is what builds character. And with great character comes great reward.

Christine Ha

#12. Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"

Romola Garai

#14. The character's attitude is more important than plot.

Stephen J. Cannell

#15. I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

Ronald Reagan

#16. Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

Billie Jean King

#17. The energy is important. It's the rebirth of the character. Even more than the sentence itself, it's the energy that has to come through. It's really 'Thank you!

Jean Dujardin

#18. What's great about writing a screenplay is that the subtext of the scene, what is not said, can sometimes be more important that what is said. Again, dialogue serves two basic functions in the scene: Either it moves the story forward or it reveals information about the character.

Syd Field

#19. It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage. I feel more like I'm doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.

Bo Burnham

#20. There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?

Andrew O'Hagan

#21. It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

Dag Hammarskjold

#22. A compliment about one's nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one's appearance doesn't mean overly much because there is no choice involved there.

Julie Garwood

#23. Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

John Carroll Lynch

#24. What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

Michael Connelly

#25. In no country is it more important to cultivate good manners, than in our own," Eliza Farrar wrote, "where we acknowledge no distinctions but what are founded on character and manners." America's

Megan Marshall

#26. [Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

James A. Garfield

#27. The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am ... not all actors approach it that way.

Stephen Lang

#28. And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that the more you read it, if I read the book again today, I'd find 100 other things that I missed last time. It's a constantly changing book.

Johnny Depp

#29. After twenty years of studying millionaires across a wide spectrum of industries, we have concluded that the character of the business owner is more important in predicting his level of wealth than the classification of his business. But

Thomas J. Stanley

#30. Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is to have somebody who is a morally sound character and judgment?

Kimberly Guilfoyle

#31. Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Robert Baden-Powell

#32. I chose not to go home and struggle with the New York scene. My size sort of locked me out. I was too short for the stage. I would have been doing character roles, so I went to Los Angeles. There is a lot more happening out there. I also felt it was important to break away from my family.

Julie Warner

#33. In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

Theodore Roosevelt

#34. When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

David Brooks

#35. Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

Megan Crane

#36. Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

Theodore Roosevelt

#37. It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice

Fela Durotoye

#38. On the question - which is more important for a story-plot or character. "It's a bit like asking whether your need your left or right leg. Maybe you have a preference, maybe one is stronger (for you) but really, you need both." (on Facebook)

Jeanette O'Hagan