Character
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have — life itself.
Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Goodness is about character — integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
But in action, one defies one's character.
I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera', my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition — such as lifting weights — we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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