Character Quotes

"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people" "You can pay for school, but you can't buy class" "Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice" "The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being" "The wise man is always similar to himself" "Our character is not so much the result of discipline as a repeated exercise in consistent and principle-centered planning." "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price" "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently" "Patience is grossly underrated." "What really matters for success, character, happiness and lifelong achievements is a definite set of emotional skills – your EQ – not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests." "Courage is grace under pressure" "Patience is a conquering virtue" "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." "Ingratitude is the essence of vileness." "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars" "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth" "Cowardice is the most terrible of vices." "We are all complicated human beings, and we must deal with various sides of our character" "Being called honorable is a wonderful compliment" "Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on"