Top 1200 Lack Of Character Quotes & Sayings

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.

My biggest problem with everything going on is the lack of understanding and the lack of respect in this world.

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

If I were to look at the church of Jesus Christ in America today, I would say our greatest problem is not that we lack the resources to do things, not that we lack the models, the programs, and the plans, but that we lack conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.

Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.

I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance - of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing of the character, the voicing of the character, the personality of the character, and what the character looks like.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.

This is a great nation at terrible risk in a dangerous world, and she has fully exposed this nation and will continue to do so because of her utter incompetence and Hillary Clinton lack of care, lack of attention, lack of concern.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take.

One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

When you are writing, you have to love all your characters. If you're writing something from a minor character's point of view, you really need to stop and say the purpose of this character isn't to be somebody's sidekick or to come in and put the horse in the stable. The purpose of this character is you're getting a little window into that character's life and that character's day. You have to write them as if they're not a minor character, because they do have their own things going on.