Character Quotes

Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

I wasn’t stealing cars at like, six. But I’ve always been bad.

The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and purity of intention, they attract to their person solely positive outcomes.

He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and he is richer who is generous with what he has.

Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.

It wouldn’t be me if I didn’t get a little nasty.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.