Top 100 Own Character Quotes
#1. He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. What is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.
John Stuart Mill
#3. Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
Billy Gibbons
#4. Bitterness will make you sick. During [Madiba's] imprisonment they were forced to work in the limestone quarry. Chipping away for no reason. Bitterness is the same. You reduce your own character with such a mindless exercise of cultivating bitterness.
Zelda La Grange
#5. His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.
Publilius Syrus
#6. Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
#7. What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Augustus Hare
#8. Taking account of the value of externals, you see, comes at some cost to the value of one's own character.
Epictetus
#9. Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.
Josie Maran
#10. Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.
Domhnall Gleeson
#11. Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.
Neil Diamond
#12. The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.
Guy Finley
#13. The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.
Confucius
#14. In point of fact, although he did not recognise it at the time, his own character and prestige had reached an apogee with Elizabeth such that nothing he might or would say could possibly affect her profound affection for him. He
Richard S. Strand
#15. Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
Bette Davis
#16. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.
Renee Fleming
#17. To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.
Lesslie Newbigin
#18. When we justify a flaw we are actually inventing a new one. When a woman neglects developing her own character, she not only chisels away her own reputation, but the reputation of everyone in her household.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#19. Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.
Muhtar Kent
#20. Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.
Quentin Crisp
#21. You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character.
Virginia Woolf
#22. If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.
Dean Koontz
#23. The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#24. It is [every woman's] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.
Lillie Langtry
#25. Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!
Napoleon Hill
#26. Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.
Donald Hall
#27. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.
Auliq Ice
#28. The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character.
Morihei Ueshiba
#29. Donald Cameron has his own character in the world now!? Skeletor exclaimed, in somewhat the same tone of voice as a tribune might have said, Hannibal has crossed the Alps with elephants!?
Neal Stephenson
#30. You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might say, "Well, I think maybe I could add this here, add that there." But I find that I write just as well for the other characters as I do for myself. I think.
Charlie Day
#32. Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams
#33. We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.
Michael Josephson
#34. The more time she is spending around people, the more she discovers of her own character failures. In the cottage she was generous, she was kind, she was positive. In this world new sides of her are emerging and she doesn't like it. She thought she was a better person than this.
Cecelia Ahern
#35. The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.
George O. Wood
#36. It is very easy to criticize others but far more difficult to put one's own principles into practice, and it is when one forgets this truth, lauds oneself to the skies, treats everyone else as worthless, and generally despises others, that one's own character is clearly revealed.
Murasaki Shikibu
#38. I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
Edmund White
#39. God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God.
Oswald Chambers
#40. By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
Confucius
#41. (Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)
George Eliot
#42. You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
Marc Newson
#43. No man can escape the shadow of his own character." Let us hope we are casting the right kind of shadow!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#44. It was difficult for him to decide whether she was sincere, or performing her own character; her beauty got in the way, like a thick cobweb through which it was difficult to see her clearly.
Robert Galbraith
#45. I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.
Rue McClanahan
#46. You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.
Nicky Gumbel
#47. I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
Pierce Brosnan
#48. Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.
Amber Heard
#49. The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.
Stephen Covey
#50. Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm.
Jonathan Shay
#51. Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
Jimmy Page
#52. Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
Arthur Helps
#53. The character of instrumental music ... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
Franz Liszt
#54. My sister was the inspiration for the character, the good qualities instilled in the character. The initial inspiration was there, but Stargirl has taken on a life of her own. She's her own character now.
Geoff Johns
#55. The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.
Austin O'Malley
#56. Missionaries can take nothing greater to the heathen world than the impress and reflection of the Love of God upon their own character.
Henry Drummond
#57. I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
Robert Wyatt
#58. I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
Kali Hawk
#59. Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
Edward Abbey
#60. I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character-the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.
Jose Saramago
#61. Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!
Jerome Richardson
#62. Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant ... In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.
John Taylor Of Caroline
#63. We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
James M. Barrie
#64. Beware of men who name their products with the initials of their own character.
Mel Croucher
#65. It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
Robert Harris
#66. Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
William Carlos Williams
#67. You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.
Richard Roxburgh
#68. Nobody is immune to a nationwide evil unless he is unshakably convinced of the danger of his own character being tainted by the same evil.
C. G. Jung
#69. Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
Jack Dee
#70. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
#71. There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.
Annette Bening
#72. Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.
Dean Koontz
#73. The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
Theodore Roosevelt
#74. A lake cannot remain stormy for a long time; an ocean cannot remain calm for a long time; everything and everyone cannot behave different from his own character for a long time!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#76. New York has their own character. I love the fans here. They are very honest, and I love that.
Victoria Azarenka
#77. Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
#78. I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.
George Gordon Byron
#79. A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.
Philip Zaleski
#80. When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.
Giancarlo Esposito
#81. We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find the character easy to read, we are reading into it our own character.
G.K. Chesterton
#82. Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
Jeff Perry
#83. The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.
William J. Clinton
#84. It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
Frances Conroy
#85. God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.
C.S. Lewis
#86. Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones ... it will always stay blue.
Raoul Dufy
#87. Of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character - that
Ayn Rand
#88. Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was to succeed it must be on the lines of his own character.
Edith Wharton
#89. What you have to remember about your mother is that she didn't have her own character. She turned into whoever she was sitting next to. When
Ann Patchett
#90. Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
Irving Stone
#91. There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.
Halford Luccock
#92. A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions.
Linda Alfiori
#93. The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
Eric Maisel
#94. It's probably true that you're forging your own character during every minute of every day, with every decision you make, but there are some moments in which this is more clear than in others.
Brian Morton
#95. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#96. Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.
Zoe Kazan
#97. The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
Paul Newman
#98. Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
Michael Gambon
#99. A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character ...
John Stuart Mill
#100. It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
Alberto Moravia
