To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past. (Quote by - Jeanne Moreau)

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld )

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. (Quote by - James A. Froude)

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things. (Quote by - Christian Bale)

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. (Quote by - Og Mandino)

Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle. (Quote by - Martha Boaz)

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. (Quote by - Abigail Van Buren)

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero )

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Character is long-standing habit. (Quote by - Plutarch)

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behoves any of us To find fault with the rest of us. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. (Quote by - William Shatner)

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of. (Quote by - William Shatner )