Arthur Miller Quotes

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

You must always do what you feel is right.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The idea of 'breaking bad' and what that means in terms of the actions and decisions people make, and why they make them - it makes people question themselves in the 'What would I do?' kind of way.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

To me, it's about always trying to make decisions that reflect my leadership and who I am.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day....'.

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.

My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.

You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.