Character Quotes
Charlotte Eriksson
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
1621 Omar Sharif
They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
2422 Rajendra Ojha
You are hard character of mine and I am soft character of yours. Practically saying you are like ice and I am like water. So how can Ice and water be different. If we understand their eternal characters we come to know that they are same i.e. H^2 0 (water) . Only the way of their uses are different but both have same goals.
3422 Dorothy Parker
In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.
4462 Wendelin Van Draanen
It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.
4393 Abigail Van Buren
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
3682 Julie Garwood
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
2509 G.A. Henty
Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.
4046 Mahatma Gandhi
Seven Deadly Sins
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.
2454 Cornelia Funke
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
3625 Michelle Richmond
It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.
3603 Ruth Rendell
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
3686 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
People lack morals, good moral character is important in every aspect of your life. Honesty and Integrity opens the door. Your character allows others to see you for who you truly are. Make your first impression a lasting impression. Ironically it may be your last impression
4557 Don Roff
Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.
4897 Jim George
Your responsibility is to not question God’s actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God’s character.
2343 Sanhita Baruah
To write is to reveal oneself.
When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.
I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it - may be not about the characters, nor about the piece, but at least about the idea.
4394 Simona Panova
Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.
4529 Jim George
The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.
4591 Evan Meekins
it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.
3104 Michelle M. Pillow
People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
1236 Maxwell Maltz
Times will change for the better when you change.
1799 James Chartrand
Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You’re giving a gift. You’re helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They’ll become real.
3633 Sol Luckman
The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.
2535 Jonathan Franzen
When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.
1716 Jim George
Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.
3211 Michael Bassey Johnson
Take good care of your final word. If your final say will hunt you in day's ahead, then hold back the words, and let silence speak.
2575 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it on the radio, read or watch it on the internet, hear about it at work etc. Then immoral acts are tuned to a deaf ear. Then no one wants to take action or speak up for what's right. Break the cycle and have moral character.
3506 Hilari Bell
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.
4603 Orrin Woodward
Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.
4438 Christian D. Larson
Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at first was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream.
1981 Kale Burton
Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.
4145 Richelle E. Goodrich
You are here to make a difference, to either improve the world or worsen it. And whether or not you consciously choose to, you will accomplish one or the other.
1001 Joan Didion
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
2775 Nicholas Sparks
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
3260 John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
1886 Harper Lee
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
3274 Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
4794 Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
4737 Fred Rogers
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
1748 Justin Cronin
Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.
3018 D.L. Moody
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it
1031 Ludwig Feuerbach
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
3731 George Eliot
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
2451 Jane Austen
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
2299 Robert Frost
They would not find me changed from him they knew - Only more sure of all I thought was true.
3818 Gary Hopkins
You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours.
1983 John Stuart Mill
A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…
4849 Harry S. Truman
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
4559 Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
4337 Michael Bassey Johnson
There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.
1608 Plato
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
1723 Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is the character of the road you travel gives you wisdom not the length of the road!
1543 Bamigboye Olurotimi
The best of your life could be the rest of your life, if you decide it will be so.
2716 Unarine Ramaru
Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.
1144 Bazil Patel
I have a bad reputation because I play evil from the outside but if you get closer I hide heaven inside me❤ ❤
3056 Jennifer DeLucy
You don't have to be beautiful to be shallow. You needn't be small or weak to be a coward. Shitty personalities come in surprising packages and anybody can be an asshole. So value the good ones, whoever they are. Recognize them when you see them and don't let them go.
3796 Marcus Aurelius
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
3554 Gregory Maguire
Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.
1544 Richard G. Scott
Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.
3144 Kim Clement
God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.
1172 Austin Fischer
The character of Jesus is the character of God. God would never do something Jesus would find morally reprehensible, so if you can’t find it in Jesus, then you really ought to think twice before you claim you’ve found it in God.
2854 Jim George
Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God’s standards.
4814 Ravi Zacharias
Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and us to 'be perfect,' as our Heavenly Father is perfect.
2431 John Burroughs
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
3784 Ludwig Feuerbach
The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.
3605 Jane Austen
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.
4543 Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
4504 Howard W. Hunter
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.
4364 Mahatma Gandhi
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles."
(Young India, 22 October 1925)
1379 N.T. Wright
Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in.
3647 Henry Mosquera
There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it’ll teach you its rhythm.
4892 Saru Singhal
Your behavior is the testimony of your character.
1074 Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
3705 Kristiane Backer
God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does
expect what we can do’.
2603 Myles Munroe
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
4636 Myles Munroe
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.
3872 Stephen R. Covey
...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
1773 Oscar Wilde
LADY BRACKNELL
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
4084 Garey Gordon
In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.
4248 Unarine Ramaru
The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.
4423 Tom Clancy
Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.
1262 Elizabeth George
Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.
1906 Django Wexler
Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?
4659 Emily Flim
Well written novels are penned by authors who have a unique and personal ardor for their story. They fabricate the phrases of their mind into a voice and thus a character is born.
1410 Heinrich Mann
Für den neuen Herrn, der die Zügel des Betriebes in seine feste Hand genommen hatte, mußten doch ohne weiteres neue Unternehmungen eintreten, die Erfolge warteten auf ihn, die Ereignisse hatten sich seiner Persönlichkeit anzupassen!...
2476 Vince Lombardi
We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes. Man can provide a full life for humanity – or he can destroy himself with the problems he has created. The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.…
4463 Unarine Ramaru
There isn't a soul in this universe with the same gifts, strength, level of intelligence and as good as yourself!
4932 Michael Bassey Johnson
It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.
3360 Bamigboye Olurotimi
Sometimes we hold on to the good and the better for a very long time that we don't even know when we allowed the best to slip away from our hands.
4084 Ellen J. Barrier
On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.
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