Best worst & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.”

Ifs Inspirational May Character Worst Recovery Release Within You Requirements

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.”

Firsts Humans Important Character Home School Human Beings Moral Principles Worst Training Endure Cease Manhood

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.”

Character Worst Talent Judging

Book:Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

“I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?”

Ifs Want Giving Should Wells Play Character Left Comedy Wife Written Worst Fine Critics Foolish Wit Tone Our Time Merry Distinctive Dreary Coarse

Book:Dramatic Essays

Source: Dramatic Essays

“Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.”

Character Next Rooms Enemy Worst Type Eating Research Google Fabulous Orange My Best Friend Visiting Worst Enemy

Author:Liane Moriarty

“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.”

Ifs Men Writing Humans Character Fall Social Comedy Groups Worst Depends Ego Behavior Tragedy Impulse One Man Versus Foe Wire Pits Social Life Massage

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.”

Looks Character Worst Satire Preaching Discourse Flattery Sermons Solemn Mercenary Commendation

Author:Jeremy Collier

“The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.”

Character Fiction Worst Statements Desperate Villain Preacher Our Words

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.”

Character School Young Purpose Three Father Cities Worst Military Taught Discipline Drug Weapons Clean Block Gang Dealer Taught Us Specialists Karate Affinity Drug Dealers Radius

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.”

“You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.”

Ifs Knows Men Character Eye Form Mother Know How Worst Judging Inadequate Misdeeds

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

“As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.”

Knows I Can Character Actors Worst Directors Notes Conviction Smell Worst Things

Author:Matt Smith

“You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.”

Trying Hard Enough Moments Character Care Force Answers Worst Honest Reader Pages Shameful Best Moments

Author:Adam Haslett

“To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.”

Character Happens Film Worst Worst Things Unmotivated

Author:Elisha Cuthbert

“You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!"”

Knows Should Mean Character Purpose Universe Space Worst Information Dialogue Crafts Stations

Author:Robert Stone

“Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell’s character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.”

People Want Humans Wells Character Levels Quality Worst Office Versions Decent Sitcom Human Qualities Latches

Author:Steve Carell

“When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch of would-be writers, who want to write the Great American Novel, every one of them, and you read their stories and they read yours, and you're not living a life. I don't like that. I like learning on the job. The character of my work has definitely evolved from the character of my life.”

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Author:Joe Frank

“Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"”

Different Play Character Film Opportunity Fun Worst Television Theater Mediums Different Characters

Author:Corey Stoll

“Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.”

Knows Men Looks Book Different Philosophy Character Feelings Sound Mistake Quality Knowing Worst Errors Profound Depth Making Mistakes Goods Traits Know Me Cheated Knowing Things

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'”

Character Happens Asks Worst Worst Things

Author:Paul Haggis

“I laugh when I end up on the worst-dressed lists. I'm not trying to be fashionable. I know I'm kind of a cartoon character. Do people honestly think I'm wearing a kafkan in order to be fashionable?”

People Thinking Knows Trying Kind Ends Character Order Laughing Worst Lists Honestly Cartoon Fashionable Cartoon Character

Author:Pamela Anderson

“There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.”

People Sometimes Character Worst Prison Criminals Charming

Author:Taryn Manning

“When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk to the American people like you possess the character and the dignity of one who seeks the highest office in the land, and behind the door you're the worst criminal on the planet, plotting the overthrow of nations and governments, and regime change, and sending drones to kill people you don't like? That's presidential.”

People Mean Doe Character Government Nations Behinds Doors Land Worst Planets Like You Trump Office Highest Dignity Criminals Suits Presidential Regimes Drones Suits You Regime Change

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“It's one of the worst nightmare situations we could create for a young character, having the people who are supposed to believe in you keep telling you you're nothing.”

People Believe Character Young Situation Worst Nightmare Believe In You Worst Nightmares

Author:Scott Snyder

“My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.”

Matter Character Worst Habit Boxes

Author:Terry Pratchett

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