You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Those who can bear all can dare all.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.