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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
— Plato
You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I'm done; for you don't need much advice of mine after my good man has spoken. I read somewhere that every inch of rope in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so wherever a bit of it is found it is known. That is the text of my little sermon to you. Virtue, which means honour, honesty, courage, and all that makes character, is the red thread that marks a good man wherever he is. Keep that always and everywhere, so that even if wrecked by misfortune, that sign shall still be found and recognized. Yours is a rough life, and your mates not all we could wish, but you can be a gentleman in the true sense of the word; and no matter what happens to your body, keep your soul clean, your heart true to those who love you, and do your duty to the end.
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts.Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.
— Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
The world loves talent but pays off on character.
— John W. Gardner
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
You're stubborn, Vlad.""Is that a compliment?
— Steven Brust, Iorich
Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were of common occurrence. The vast majority of these people, government servants, planters, and traders, who spent their working lives in Malaya were ordinary people ordinarily satisfied with their station in life. They did the jobs they were paid to do more or less competently,. They were as happy with their wives as are most married couples. They led humdrum lives and did very much the same things every day. Sometimes by way of a change they got a little shooting; but at a rule, after they had done their day's work, they played tennis if there were people to play with, went to the club at sundown if there was a club in the vicinity, drank in moderation, and played bridge. They had their little tiffs, their little jealousies, their little flirtations, their little celebrations. They were good, decent, normal people.I respect, and even admire, such people, but they are not the sort of people I can write stories about. I write stories about people who have some singularity of character which suggests to me that they may be capable of behaving in such a way as to give me an idea that I can make use of, or about people who by some accident or another, accident of temperament, accident of environment, have been involved in unusual contingencies. But, I repeat, they are the exception.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4
Character is standing tall and guiding others.
— Saru Singhal, Rousing Cadence
THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A PERSON IN SEEN WHEN HE/SHE IS ALONE...
— VENKATA NAVEEN KASAGANA
Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?
— Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage
End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.
— Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well
A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.
— Henry Hazlitt
Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.
— John Wooden
Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.
— Colin Firth
And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPotent, helplessAnd with one word of truth or treacheryHe will save or damn the earthBecause he is mad and saneCold and passionateLost and found
— Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
Why are some countries able, despite their very real and serious problems, to press ahead along the road to reconciliation, recovery, and redevelopment while others cannot? These are critical questions for Africa, and their answers are complex and not always clear. Leadership is crucial, of course. Kagame was a strong leader–decisive, focused, disciplined, and honest–and he remains so today. I believe that sometimes people's characters are molded by their environment. Angola, like Liberia, like Sierra Leone, is resource-rich, a natural blessing that sometimes has the sad effect of diminishing the human drive for self-sufficiency, the ability and determination to maximize that which one has. Kagame had nothing. He grew up in a refugee camp, equipped with only his own strength of will and determination to create a better life for himself and his countrymen. 
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
There was not a moving up into vacated places
—  there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.
— C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Bradley Headstone, in his decent black coat and waistcoat, and decent white shirt, and decent formal black tie, and decent pantaloons of pepper and salt, with his decent silver watch in his pocket and its decent hair-guard round his neck, looked a thoroughly decent young man of six-and-twenty. He was never seen in any other dress, and yet there was a certain stiffness in his manner of wearing this, as if there were a want of adaptation between him and it, recalling some mechanics in their holiday clothes. He had acquired mechanically a great store of teacher's knowledge. He could do mental arithmetic mechanically, sing at sight mechanically, blow various wind instruments mechanically, even play the great church organ mechanically. From his early childhood up, his mind had been a place of mechanical stowage. The arrangement of his wholesale warehouse, so that it might be always ready to meet the demands of retail dealers history here, geography there, astronomy to the right, political economy to the left—natural history, the physical sciences, figures, music, the lower mathematics, and what not, all in their several places—this care had imparted to his countenance a look of care; while the habit of questioning and being questioned had given him a suspicious manner, or a manner that would be better described as one of lying in wait. There was a kind of settled trouble in the face. It was the face belonging to a naturally slow or inattentive intellect that had toiled hard to get what it had won, and that had to hold it now that it was gotten. He always seemed to be uneasy lest anything should be missing from his mental warehouse, and taking stock to assure himself.
— Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
Be a good listener in the special way a story requires: note the manner of presentation; the development of plot, character; the addition of new dramatic sequences; the emphasis accorded to one figure or another in the recital; and the degree of enthusiam, of coherence, the narrator gives to his or her account.
— Robert Coles, The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination
He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
— Iain Pears, Stone's Fall
He could not name precisely the special quality she possessed. A glow. An exuberance. An aggressive and determined joy that gave her the courage to push past his defenses, to confront him with unflinching courage, to look into his heart and to see something there worth fighting for.
— Susan Wiggs, At the King's Command
My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.
— Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton
Remember, a person's character is not only judged by the company he or she keeps but also by the company he or she avoids.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.
— Sharon Shinn, Summers at Castle Auburn
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
— Mark Twain, Stories
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
— Arnold Bennett
Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.
— Jazz Feylynn
I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones
— Johnny Flora
Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever rea­son, My Lord. Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't.~Tenaxos I to Landar Parmingh, Baron Davellon
— Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Hands - Part 1: Gambit
I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the natural punishment of dishonestly-enjoyed pleasure, at some former period of their lives. I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Association with other people corrupts our character
—  especially when we have none.
You can tell the character of a person by their handshake.
— Kathy Magliato, Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
It is character that communicates most eloquently.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
— Henry Drummond
She, the clear heart'ed soul shall show a small crack (in heart) as clearly as the equally transparent, but dirty rogue can cleverly hide it.
— Priyavrat Thareja
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
— Elmer Leterman
Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. She was very showy, but she was not genuine; she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments, but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature; nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness. She was not good; she was not original; she used to repeat sounding phrases from books; she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own. She advocated a high tone of sentiment, but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule.
— Harun Yahya
The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.
— Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
— Jon Hunstman
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
— William Shakespeare
Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. If we can have no secrets, it means we can't, after all, go so far afield as we might,' he hesitated, 'yes, as we might.'Eastman looked at him sourly. 'Cavenaugh, when you've practiced law in New York for twelve years, you find that people can't go far in any direction, except-' He thrust his forefinger sharply at the floor.'Even in that direction, few people can do anything out of the ordinary. Our range is limited. Skip a few baths, and we become personally objectionable. The slightest carelessness can rot a man's integrity or give him ptomaine poisoning. We keep up only be incessant cleansing operations, of mind and body. What we call character, is held together by all sorts of tacks and strings and glue. ("Consequences")
— Willa Cather, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one . . . knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either.
— Josh Weil, The New Valley: Novellas
His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.
— Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura
He's the navigator, he could probably find you a route to Hawaii underwater.
— Jocelyn White, The Ezekiel Experience
I could scream abuse at him all day long; he wouldn't mind at all. It's me he wants, my look, my outside; not my emotions or my mind or my soul or even my body. Not anything human.
— John Fowles, The Collector
Look beyond the talker, and uncover the stalker. If the mind is darkened with character disEASE, the behavior will symptomatically follow...those whose mentality becomes infected by their obvious blight, easily become the host targets of their contagion.
— Tracey Bond
Be a person of character people can count on.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Character is what can do without success
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never want to be the type of person remembered for vanity or materialism
—  only by the content of my true character that comes from within.
Some things are worse than death... If a man lives, he must still live with himself.
— Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till
Your words and actions must match to build your character. Any gap in those will put a dent in your credibility. Be a man of your words.
— Mayur Ramgir
There are few people who are mature enough to uphold moral and ethical values; who have a remarkable character; who are honest and sincere; who cultivate and harbor loyalty, devotion and dedication by rendering a striking admiration.
— Sandeep N. Tripathi
You have to descend to the valley of humility to climb to heights of character.
— ANIKOR Daniel
Don’t lose yourself in the fog of normality.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
A man's character is only formed after the impressions of childhood and early youth have become blended with the indefinable and hidden influences both atavistic and of more immediate heredity. When, like soft clay, the newborn human spirit has been first fashioned by the firm hand of the modeller and then allowed to set and harden, this is the moment of the final character emerges, fixed for life. While the part played by heredity will always remains elusive and uncertain, the influence of a man's early years are not difficult to unfurl if we know where to seek and consider seriously what we find.
— Miklós Bánffy, The Phoenix Land
It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on top of that mountain, the fierce independence that was suddenly mine, to remain inside me no matter how it scared me when I tumbled, was an inheritance. Indeed it was my chief inheritance from my mother, who was braver. Yet, while she knew that independent spirit so well, it was what she agonizingly tried to protect me from, in effort to warn me against. It was what she shared, it made the strongest bond between us and the strongest tension. To grow up is to fight for it, to grow old is to lose it after having possessed it.
— Eudora Welty, On Writing
Situation after situation, shape your attitude! Situation after situation change your character!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
All men can see these tacticsWhereby I master
— But out of which evolve profitsNone can see the character.Strategy without characterIs the slowest route to profits
We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek.
— Thomas Hardy
Damn, she just kept on surprising him. First with her beauty. Then with the illustrations. He'd been forced to accept that there was more to her character than he'd gleaned from her letters, but none of it fell too far outside the borders of his carefully mapped mental territory labeled "Madeline." She was privileged, sheltered, intelligent, curious, and far too crafty.But this...This was different. As he watched her with the tenants' children, his conception of her pushed against its established boundaries. He was forced to add new descriptors to his list. Ones like "generous" and "responsible" and "protective.
— Tessa Dare, When a Scot Ties the Knot
Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Your character is your conduct.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What I took out of them was that character was measured by facing up to difficult situations and that a hero was a man who would not break even under the most trying circumstances.
— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
What do I and a diamond have in common? We are tough, brilliant, and carbon based entities which evolved into something better under immense pressure, tribulation, and trials.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
The disappointments, the injustices, and the unfair treatment of others can never make me become a bitter person, far from it. It rather makes me become more and more generous and compassionate. Because down in my heart, am very much at peace with myself.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
External beauty is what the world sees in you but success comes to you because of your internal beauty.
— Seema Brain Openers
If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.
— Epictetus, Enchiridion
It’s better to be individual than a clone of someone else.
— Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8
In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existance is supported by the king, but they need to serve the king with their capacity for action in order to have a good game.
— Roumen Bezergianov
Failing to fulfill your responsibilities is not only a reflection of your priorities, but also your integrity. Your actions define your character not the words you utter.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn.
— James Madison, The Federalist Papers
It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others.
— Raymond E. Feist, King of Foxes
...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
What you think you are inside doesn’t matter, Morgan.” She hastened over to sit beside him. “In the end, it’s what a man does, how he acts, that shows his character. And I’ve never seen you act anything but nobly.”He lifted his face to hers, astonished at how fiercely she defended him, even after knowing the darkest secrets of his soul. “How can you be so sure of my character when I’m not even sure of it myself?”“I can’t help it,” she said, her voice trembling. She dropped her eyes to the bench, turmoil showing in her sweet features. “I love you. And loving someone means believing in them.”She loved him? Despite knowing what he was? A fierce joy seized him before he could prevent it. He caught her by the chin and forced her to look at him, but her clear blue eyes held no hint of deception. “God help you if you don’t mean that, ma belle ange.
— Sabrina Jeffries, Dance of Seduction
Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
He'd learned pretty early that the illusioned virtuous creatures were no more than that— illusions. Innocence was a community that was used up and consumed fairly quickly. More often than not, innocence was just ignorance, and the true character revealed itself before long— twisted and greedy like the rest.
— Camille Oster, The Notorious Marquis of Wickerley
May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.
— Joyce Rachelle
It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions - it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
In the biological sense, race does not exist.
— Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
Ability may take you to the top but it takes character to keep you there.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our personality, and our personality scripts how successfully we interact with other people and respond to a changing environment.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.
— John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Entrepreneurship does not build character
—  it reveals character.
There was a touch of prairie about the fellow.--hans vollmanYes.--roger bevins iiiLike stepping into a summer barn late at night.--hans vollmanOr a musty plains office, where some bright candle still burns.--roger bevins iiiVast. Windswept. New. Sad.--hans vollmanSpacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious.--roger bevins iiiBack slightly out.--hans vollmanRight boot chafing.--roger bevins iii
— George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Never allow anyone to take you out of character, some people know which buttons to press. (Zip it instead)
— Charmaine J Forde
The best way to determine a person’s character is to judge them when their world is falling apart.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
One's character is key to its fate and future of life that how one executes and prosecutes it.
— Ehsan Sehgal
Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its characters, the play is ideal for showing people in a room talking and movies are ideal for showing large metal objects hurtling through the air.
— Todd Alcott
If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we regret afterwards + wish undone (or that we know beforehand we will regret after). So it`s no excuse to say, ``I didn`t mean to do it. I was tempted + I couldn`t resist.`` All one can honestly say is, ``I did it. I`m sorry I did it.``- Reborn
— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
One's ugly face and features may not be a problem. Conversely, one's such character displays, well a problem since no one tolerates it.
— Ehsan Sehgal
I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
In the formative present, you are becoming who you will be in the future.
— Sarah Lynn Phillips
Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear.
— Sunday Adelaja
What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted.
— David  Brooks, The Road to Character
Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.
— Sunday Adelaja
Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
The measure of a man consists less in his present perfection than in his willingness to be perfected. A man will be remembered most, not for his accomplishments, but for his character.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means.
— Louis L'Amour, How the West Was Won
What you express in your character is what your lifestyle crowns
— Sunday Adelaja
People with character are capable of long obedience in the same direction, of staying attached to people and causes and callings through thick and thin. People with character also have scope. They are not infinitely flexible, free-floating, and solitary. They are anchored by permanent attachments to important things. In the realm of the intellect, they have a set of permanent convictions about fundamental truths. In the realm of emotion, they are enmeshed in a web of unconditional loves. In the realm of action, they have a permanent commitment to tasks that cannot be completed in a single lifetime.
— David Brooks, El camino del carácter
But the Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.
— John R.W. Stott
...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192
— Jeff VanderMeer, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Agency in fiction has to exist in the context of the worldview. Otherwise agency is not just meaningless or unconvincing, it is often laughable. Unfortunately, agency is often thoughtlessly given to characters who would not have it in reality. p.189
— Jeff VanderMeer, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195
— Jeff VanderMeer, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
The Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.
— John Stott, Baptism and Fullness: The Work of the Holy Spirit Today
No matter how strong you are, you don’t just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction. The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires. He went to bed at his usual hour, and slept in peace.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Love is not merely an attribute of God’s character but the essence of his being
— Sunday Adelaja
The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.
— Sunday Adelaja
The content in heavenly order will manifest only when reflected
— Sunday Adelaja
Embody the character of the kingdom and it will manifest
— Sunday Adelaja
You live out the character of he whom love is immersed in you
— Sunday Adelaja
We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Skills can be trained, character is inbred.
— Jeffrey Fry
...The happy Warrior... is he... who, doomed to go in company with pain, and fear, and bloodshed, miserable train turns his necessity to glorious gain; in face of these doth exercise a power which is our human nature's highest dower: controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves of their bad influence, and their good receives: by objects, which might force the soul to abate her feeling, rendered more compassionate; is placable because occasions rise so often that demand such sacrifice; more skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure, as tempted more; more able to endure, as more exposed to suffering and distress; thence, also, more alive to tenderness.
— William Wordsworth, Character of the Happy Warrior
There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author’s back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
— Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club
Character is mental and moral qualities distinctive to every individual, but it is constant in those who have courage to make a commitment and live with it.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
Being a good loser helps build character, provides valuable lessons, and helps you become mentally prepared for your next challenge.
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
If you’re not proud of what you do, you’re not done.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
Character is never built in a classroom
—  it is developed through the circumstances of life.
The reality is that old houses that were built a hundred years ago were built by actual craftsmen, people who were the best in the world at what they did. The little nuances in the woodwork, the framing of the doors, the built-in nooks, the windows—all had been done by smart, talented people, and I quickly found that uncovering those details and all of that character made the house more inviting and more attractive and more alive.
— Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story
Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
Character has outlived its day. In ancient, primitive times, when biologically weak man struggled against omnipotent nature, character was useful, beneficial; with hideous labor it shoved the heavy stone of human impotence forward. We learned to praise ourselves, to admire character, to prostrate ourselves before it, make a fetish of it. But today no one has the courage to discredit character, although, psychologically speaking, it is now a throwback, simply reactionary.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.
— Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse
Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Character is built on every decision we make, especially those we make in secret.
— Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne
The more important factors are a man’s perseverance, his ability to innovate and think of new ideas, to be willing to adapt to changing conditions, to push almost tirelessly at a task or several at a time, during the difficult seasons as well as the prosperous. Certainly a man may be all these on his own, and succeed, wife or no – but to have a wife who possessed these qualities, who could bring out in her husband such steadiness and strength of character by her example and unyielding affection… The worth of such a wife is immeasurable. - James Laurence to his grandson, Laurie
— Trix Wilkins, The Courtship of Jo March: a variation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
Good character isn't produced overnight; it's grown over many seasons. In the same way you sort the good apples from the bad, the marks of poor characters are just as easy to detect.
— Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne
If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.
— Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
You can choose to fight your journey every step of the way or you can embrace it, recognizing each stumble or setback as a opportunity to strengthen your character, finesse your craft, and deepen your passion. Oh this journey can be beautiful if you allow yourself to enjoy the rain!
— Kierra C.T. Banks
Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is presented in such a way that the reader has the sense that it is unfolding around him. This doesn't mean he has to identify himself with the character or feel compassion for the character or anything like that. It just means that fiction has to be largely presented rather than reported. Another way to say it is that though fiction is a narrative art, it relies heavily on the element of drama.
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Affect the main character or characters and you win the game.
— Deyth Banger
The root of the word “integrity” is “integer.” It’s a math term - and it refers to whole numbers. The word itself implies “wholeness.” These are the questions we must ask ourselves frequently. “Am I whole?” “Are there parts of my character that are lacking?
— Josh Hatcher, Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
Everyone has a character but sometimes it becomes less.
— Amit Abraham
It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.
— Charles Bayard Mitchell
The purpose of salt is to change the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Attracting attention to yourself in the Kingdom of God is like seducing the bride because you are the best man of the groom.
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Films, truths!Question 1How you get sad in movie?Mainly the music makes you sad if something happens and there isn't music... there isn't and sadness.Question 2How do you get in best level scared?- It's need silence... footsteps... silence... silence and then from nowhere something to came out.Question 3How do you make people to love the characters?- People like all kinds of characters, but to love them they should hear not what they want but what they won't expect, a character based on their problems and experience...
— Deyth Banger
A good character will be recognized by a goodcharacter.Petra HermansSeptember 8, 2016
— Petra Hermans
Decision power is knowledge-based, wisdom-driven and character-oriented.
— Pearl Zhu, Talent Master: 199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles
We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
You wanna respect???- I don't see you to show it... if you show it I will respect you as a character.
— Deyth Banger
People are rarely what they first appear—good, bad, or otherwise.
— Jayne Castel, Dawn of Wolves
My character is beyond your every thought, and I'm different from your every character.
— Tanmaya Guru
Let's be private... I am different character and DeYtH is different as character.
— Deyth Banger
Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
To weaken the body, remove blood. To weaken the character, remove struggle.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility
You are truly classy if you manage to speak politely in spite of anger boiling inside you.
— Saru Singhal
Personal discontent and lost illusion is the catalysis and the principal theme for every book ever written. The sign of maturity is when a person finally realizes that they would rather live truthfully than persist indulging his or her comforting delusions.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither or rejoice and thrive.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Be the watchman of your values to safeguard your character.
— Tasneem Haneed
Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent.
— Gugu Mona
As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not.
— Deyth Banger
Your character is a blueprint of who you are. People access and determine your pre-qualifications, assents and mode of thinking through the character you cough out.
— Prince Akwarandu
Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
The weakness was the first feature, the other what will do if I was this character? One of the best questions ever I have asked, it's one great from it comes another and another...
— Deyth Banger
The sort of people that we become is, in large part, determined by the voices that we choose to listen to. Truly, we do not have a choice of listening versus not listening. We all obey certain voices, and thus the question is not “Will I listen?” but “Which voices will I listen to?” But it is not only a matter of choosing to listen to good voices over bad ones. If only it were as simple as the proverbial whispering angel and devil on our shoulders. It is also a matter of whether we will choose to listen to different voices, voices that don’t sound the same as our own. Will we listen to the voices of different cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds and beliefs? Will we listen to the voices that unsettle us and might make us feel anxious or guilty? If we choose to listen only to voices that echo our own, we will be limited in our growth and stunted in our spirituality. Choosing to tune in to only one or two stations may be comfortable, but it is not transformative. The voices we want to hear are not always the same as the voices we need to hear.
— Adam McHugh
--a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.
— Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.
— William Steig, Abel's Island
Why you choose happiness, so you think that the sad moments like somebody dieing - it's equal to happiness?!?!?!?!??!So you think that time crimes like this in auschwitz which don't have proof so far from what they say in the reports from Mr.Death (Documentary film!)... so this is equal to (How to say it???!?!) to happiness??WTF, crime equal to happiness, sadness also so what's left?Oh, oh I know the Joker (Note: He is a nice character isn't he?)
— Deyth Banger
Her character was like a country which on first acquaintance seems grand, but inhospitable; but in which presently you discover smiling little villages among fruit trees in the folds of the majestic mountains, and pleasant ambling rivers that flow kindly through lush meadows. But these comfortable scenes, though they surprise and even reassure you, are not enough to make you feel at home in the land of tawny heights and windswept spaces.
— m. somerset maugham
Then you have to be nothing. Want nothing. You can't have them-Kat or Annabel-if you need them. You're not a husband. You're not a father. You're a man with a task. Understand?
— Greg Hurwitz
The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters!
— Deyth Banger
Character trumps circumstance every time.
— R.A.Delmonico
Sorry, but at first yeah all lie, but you forgot to say that the truth comes from the lies. (Especially for GreenHollyWood)
— Deyth Banger
Character: our habitual way of operating. HOW we are is WHO we are!
— Dave Anderson, Becoming a Leader of Character: 6 Habits That Make or Break a Leader at Work and at Home
Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character. You don't suddenly alter just because the body's gone.
— Algernon Blackwood, Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
The character was created by you, if you kill yourself you kill the character, it happen because you done it... you don't realise it!
— Deyth Banger
We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough
— Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
Why am I anti-social?? Hey GreenWind can you answer me, little black biatch that I don't go out makes me anti social? How about the people which can't cross the street, everyday talking about football and playing box. You are one of them, so you are without minded guy, you are dumb, stupid and black biatch. Let's see how now you will win??? Why you are so quite??? Oh,oh I know you don't have what to say!
— Deyth Banger
Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Stephen King is a great and incredible character.
— Deyth Banger
The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself.
— T Jay Taylorlor
Real mental toughness is about being conscious of your behavior patterns and from this knowledge, you are able to turn your life around.
— Tara Estacaan
Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing!
— Utpal Vaishnav
In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life!
— Deyth Banger
It is a Lancashire custom to be on the defensive. We anticipate jokes about rain, "bi gum," and Wigan; we expect people to peer at us through the thin layer of smoke they fancy they see around our heads.
— Sylvia Lovat Corbridge, It's an Old Lancashire Custom
The human race is a scummy thing, and so is Earth, and so are you.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.
— Karen Marie Moning, Faefever
Patience, my friend; Once again, I say, Patience. In an era 'plagued' with speed, doggedness of character and drudgery of persistence is the only guarantee to mastery.
— Ufuoma Apoki