Character Quotes

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.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.

To be honest, I don’t think I’m the best role model in the world. I’m pretty immature sometimes.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.