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Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you. (Quote by - Jimmy Johnson)
Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. (Quote by - Spike Lee )
I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character. (Quote by - Dana Carvey)
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. (Quote by - Danielle Steel)
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova)
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up. (Quote by - Nora Roberts)
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, ifone has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. (Quote by - William James)
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. (Quote by - Shaquille ONeal)
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out. (Quote by - Sandra Cisneros)
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The discipline of desire is the background of character. (Quote by - John Locke)
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. (Quote by - E. O. Wilson)
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)