Character Quotes

The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

~ Confucius

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.

~ Jo Walton

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

~ Bertolt Brecht

In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon

~ George F. Will

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. . . . The force of character is cumulative.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You're kind and patient and honorable, and yes, maybe those aren't flashy, magical, extraordinary traits. Maybe being all those things does make you a bit ordinary, but the ordinary things are the important things.

~ H.l. Burke

Success corrupts character when a person loses the spirit of thankfulness.

~ Orrin Woodward

The person you are in the dark will eventually be the person you are in the light.

~ Ray Lewis

People must be just and fair, starting with what they thought.

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

To say that he 'nailed a subject's soul to the canvas' makes the assumption that we persons, as well as artists, can see one another's souls.Maybe we do. Maybe we all have the ability to perceive another's soul, and do so every day, only we take it for granted, and don't even know it when we're doing it. We call it knowing someone's 'character' or 'personality.

~ Lynn Cullen

It is not the class you come from, but that with which you carry yourself that matters most.

~ Carl W. Brand

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

~ Nelson Mandela

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

~ Thomas W. Martin

Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you’re going to do.

~ Hyrum W. Smith

Maybe when we stop looking at blessings as abundance we'll start appreciating the little we have.

~ Unarine Ramaru

During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story-books, fairy-tales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever. Hence the gratifying fact that it has had no child born to it and that the complete little men and women whom it has produced have been observed to bear a likeness to old monkeys with something depressing on their minds.

~ Charles Dickens

I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.

~ Anne Rice

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.

~ Stephen King

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.

~ Stephen King

Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they’ve sold out, and the more you’re acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it’s like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity – at least that’s what they imagine.

~ David Lagercrantz

Heart and character have no gender, religion nor color.

~ Charles Spencer King

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

~ Tom Vanderbilt

only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home

~ Richard M. Nixon

Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the why that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Your consent is your character.

~ Shannon L. Alder

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.

~ H.g. Wells

It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.

~ Charles Dickens

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

~ Aryn Kyle

The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together to convince Westerners in the twentieth century that morality is the study of moral quandaries and dilemmas. Where the Greeks focused on the character of a person and asked what kind of person we should each aim to become, modern ethics focuses on actions, asking when a particular action is right or wrong. ... This turn from character ethics to quandary ethics has turned moral education away from virtues and toward moral reasoning. If morality is about dilemmas, then moral education is training in problem solving.

~ Jonathan Haidt

The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Even if people say that I don't have a character still I am a well known character.

~ Amit Abraham

You will see true character after a defeated ambition

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.

~ Patricia Highsmith

But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

~ Jerry Bridges

If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.

~ Parashar Pandya

You can like an immoral character because she’s interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.

~ Gillian Flynn

Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devotion. Everything is lost if there is no character.

~ Periyar E.v. Ramasamy

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood. ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.