Quotes On Character Makes A Man

#1. If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."

Brian Regan

#2. Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Thomas Steinbeck

#3. A man has the strength to face what he is thrown in life. If he falls or is beaten, he does not complain but gets up and rides in to face the challenge once more.

Cheryl Matthynssens

#4. A man's character reveals itself most clearly when he makes a choice under pressure.

Dan Millman

#5. It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Voting is a civic sacrament.

Theodore Hesburgh

#7. Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

#8. I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

Dennis Rodman

#9. The brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

Herbert Spencer

#11. Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

Jules Renard

#12. Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

Raheel Farooq

#13. It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.

Jack Lemmon

#14. Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#15. Character is the real you-"the you in you that makes you the you, you are". "the hidden man of the heart

Ikechukwu Joseph

#16. Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Charles De Gaulle

#17. I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

Randy Newman

#18. The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Joseph Heller

#19. Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'

John Muckler

#20. Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#21. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Plato

#22. The quality of a man is not determined by the opinions that others hold of him, nor by the opinions that he holds of himself. The quality of a man is determined only by his actions and the choices that he makes. Only that and that alone.

C. JoyBell C.

#23. The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Edward Young

#24. You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

Winston Churchill

#25. Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.

Nirmala Srivastava

#26. The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#27. When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

Suzy Amis

#28. It's not the tailor that makes the man.

Romanian Proverb

#29. Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

Josh Holloway

#30. The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order.

Sean Brady

#31. You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

Jennifer Aniston

#32. Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#33. I am an aging Girl Scout.

Amy Sedaris

#34. That in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.

Leo Tolstoy

#35. If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

Theodore Roosevelt

#36. You did promise me it'd be the best date of my life...."
She smiled up at him. "Well, a promise is a promise. And I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Paige Tyler

#37. Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

Robertson Davies

#38. In the muted silence I could feel my heart hammering against my chest, beating on my rib cage like it was trying to bust out to see what was wrong with the man it belonged to.

Quil Carter

#39. The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.

Jane Austen

#40. I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

Hugh Laurie

#41. When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in incarnation or wearing T-Shirts that rather mock the King of Righteousness rather than glorify Him, then something is terribly awry.

Steve Camp