It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. Cicero
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. Walter Hagen
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit. Peter Ackroyd
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. zig ziglar
It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man. Ray Nitschke
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books. Peter Ackroyd
Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart. Johnny Miller
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic. Robert Crais
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. Charles Barkley
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. Lance Armstrong
One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance. Ron Jaworski
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.Albert Einstein
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. Cicero