Character Quotes

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

~ Wayde Goodall

...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...

~ John Geddes

First character, then ability.

~ Shinichi Suzuki

What if God doesn’t keep his promises?

~ K. Howard Joslin

Understanding character is a vital part of the process of finding a relationship partner and developing a strong and vibrant relationship together.

~ Susanne M. Alexander

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

~ Wayde Goodall

Character is contagious.

~ Wayde Goodall

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

~ Wayde Goodall

The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

~ Bo Schembechler

We largely become what we have observed and respected.

~ Wayde Goodall

...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

~ John Geddes

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

~ Melika Dannese Lux

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

~ Sophocles

Encourage literally came from in courage. The courage is put into you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

~ Henry Cloud

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

~ Timothy J. Keller

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

~ Michael Ondaatje

I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.

~ Bauvard

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

~ Henry David Thoreau

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

~ Colin Cotterill

Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.

~ Shannon L. Alder

From out of your heart, you speak.-Emma, When Crickets Cry

~ Charles Martin

He was a character.A character who should still be here. Damn it all to hell.He should still be here.

~ Lisa Schroeder

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

~ Orrin Woodward

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

~ Thomas Hughes

In these times of Darkness, I keep dreaming of a better tomorrow, and praying my soul won't be corrupted. These are Gudrun's words and thoughts. She is living in a troubled world, where only the strong can be free.She is a Fantasy character you find on The Art of Isis Sousa & Guests!

~ Isis Sousa

A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

~ George Eliot

I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.

~ Peter Koevari

What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Her flesh was powdery and voluptuously weary, as if tenderized by all the different beds and arms in which she had lain. Her face was as soft as the pulpy flash of an overripe banana, her breasts like two tiny bunches of grapes. She exuded a certain seedy charm, a poetry of premature corruption and decay. She breathed the air as if it burned her palate, baking her small, hot, whorish mouth. It was as if she were sucking a sweet or slurping champagne.

~ Dezső Kosztolányi

I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books

~ Christina Tetreault

Character is what we do when no one else is watching~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

...I've been ripped off, lied to, slandered, gossiped about slapped, falsely accused, and had my truths not believed. I've had my heart broken, had my pride stomped on, witnessed unforgivable acts, and heard words that hurt so much I withed that they would not replay in my head, but they did. In all these moments--some tear-soaked, some life-defining, but all character-building moments--I have felt vulnerable. And I believe these feelings of vulnerability--when a person feels scared and alone and overwhelmed and pissed off, wen the sting of unfairness bites deep--while miserable to live through, are the basis for writing compelling fiction.

~ Jessica Page Morrell

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty The problem, she said, was that the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character. Reason and religion teach us, she said, that we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.

~ Howard Zinn

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

~ Virginia Woolf

Would you have references?I'm awfully sorry but I haven't. I just arrived in New York, and don't know a soul. Except you. I smiled but she didn't smile back. She stood hesitating, and I said, It's true that I'm an escaped convict, an active counterfeiter, and occasional murderer. And I howl during the full of the moon. But I'm neat.

~ Jack Finney

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.

~ James Chartrand