Character Defects Quotes

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

Aren't all people flawed?

My character is not flawless.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal party, his party must in the issue fall with him.

I learned that I had character defects, that I was allergic to alcohol and drugs, and that I had an obsession with all the bad stuff. But thank God that I woke and that I had good people around me to support me. There's not much more I can say about it. You have to want to be a better person.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

No one is perfect. We all have issues.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.