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Everyone in my story has it's own character, GreenHollyWood cheeky, hypocritical and near to mad guy. A guy who really can't understand you and have very wrong conclusion so far I can say they are full of doubt.John Barker, wow that's one of my favourite characters, he is the guy who always lies and always somebody is behind him, he works at the bakery, he tries to devastate a lot of stuff.James Downder, the drunkard who knows probably he takes drugs or not, so far he is full of depression and so far the depression kills people....
— Deyth Banger
The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace.
— Deyth Banger
And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.
— Bob Dylan, The Lyrics: Since 1962
Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent flame, was being gradually softened and bent by the troubles that oppressed it. In spite of myself, I was conscious of a feeling of envy for those who did not suffer from such troubles, for the wealthy and the privileged; and this envy, I observed, was accompanied—still against my will—by a feeling of bitterness towards them, which, in turn, did not limit its aim to particular persons or situations, but, as if by an uncontrollable bias, tended to assume the general, abstract character of a whole conception of life. In fact, during those difficult days, I came very gradually to feel that my irritation and my intolerance of poverty were turning into a revolt against injustice, and not only against the injustice which struck at me personally but the injustice from which so many others like me suffered. I was quite aware of this almost imperceptible transformation of my subjective resentments into objective reflections and states of mind, owing to the bent of my thoughts which led always and irresistibly in the same direction: owing also to my conversation, which, without my intending it, alway harped upon the same subject. I also noticed in myself a growing sympathy for those political parties which proclaimed their struggle against the evils and infamies of the society to which, in the end I had attributed the troubles that beset me—a society which, as I thought, in reference to myself, allowed its best sons to languish and protected its worst ones. Usually, and in the simpler, less cultivated people, this process occurs without their knowing it, in the dark depths of consciousness where, by a kind of mysterious alchemy, egoism is transmuted into altruism, hatred into love, fear into courage; but to me, accustomed as I was to observing and studying myself, the whole thing was clear and visible, as though I were watching it happen in someone else; and yet I was aware the whole time that I was being swayed by material subjective factors, that I was transforming purely personal motives into universal reasons.
— Alberto Moravia, Contempt
I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes.
— Luke  Taylor
It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.
— Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Hey, GreenHollyWood ruin my vision. I don't want to be gay... because what's shown in Mr.Robot it's geysish, mother fucker!
— Deyth Banger
About GreenHollyWood who is this character?? My English teacher a fat guy about 30 or 35 years old with Glasses and short Hair.
— Deyth Banger
Every pill change your personality, as much you take as more you become different character.
— Deyth Banger
I don't know do I exist?I'm two different characters, DeYtH Banger isn't even and my name it was a character created by me. But who am I??Can I use the word "I"?, who is "I". You use "I", he use this word and she use this word, but who is "I"?
— Deyth Banger
Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
GreenHollyWood is a bad character, fat, liking jokes, liking jokes about size, about the large, about the how big are you. Likes to laugh when you make a mistake, ... but but he is a teacher?! With a glasses a fat guy!
— Deyth Banger
When you die you say "Game Over" and that's all the game is over. You as an actor you die with this character stuff, but a new character is build.
— Deyth Banger
It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!
— Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
Weird: of strange or extraordinary character
— Merriam-Webster
You can’t repair character flaws with positive social media posts
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Hardships lead to strength of character.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Character is a choice whatever the circumstance; In the NRM you can choose to be a Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, an Ofwono Opondo or a Tamale Mirundi. And in the Opposition you can choose to be a Gen. Mugisha Muntu, a Munyagwa or a Kato Lubwama.
— Allan Amanyire
Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.
— Winston Graham, The Angry Tide
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
— Margaret Chase
Even if people say that I don't have a character still I am a well known character. Thanks to all such people for giving me at least some character to begin with.
— Amit Abraham
Struggle forms character. No struggle, no character.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.
— Raheel Farooq
If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable but not necessarily subordinate or inferior to practice, and if our democratic aspirations are defined in such realistic and defensible terms as to admit of excellence, all these supposed antagonisms lose their force.
— Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.
— Confucius, The Analects of Confucius: Bilingual Edition, English and Chinese: 論語
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, What Makes This Book So Great
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, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so never try to deceive anyone with mere words. Word/Talk is cheap but character is key. It costs nothing to be authentic. Learn to be a man or woman of substance!
— Kemi Sogunle
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, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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, An Ordinary Knight: A Fairy Cursed Fable
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, Bumi Manusia
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, Mrs. Poe
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, Doctor William Crawford Gorgas Of Alabama And The Panama Canal
Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you’re going to do.
— Hyrum W. Smith, The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?
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, Bleak House
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, The Queen of the Damned
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, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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, The Girl in the Spider's Web
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, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
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, Little Dorrit
You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.
— Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories
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 Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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
Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.
— Matt      Chandler
Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character
— Hiyamedia
You will see true character after a defeated ambition
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
It is not what a man gets, But what a man is,That he should think of.He should first think of his character,And then of his condition.He that has character need have no fear of his condition.Character will draw condition after it.
— H.W. Beecher (1813-1887)
Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.
— Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
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, The Pursuit of Holiness
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 Gotta Have Balls
You can like an immoral character because she’s interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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.
Truth needs wisdom's guidance. Wisdom prevents a hard truth from getting the best of you when an imperfect character brings out the worst in you.
— Stella Payton
Don't bother about your looks, just bother about your character
— Yash Bansal
Love not only transform your mental and emotional character/attitude, it also shifts your physical being, which goes thru subtle changes also. Love is POWERFUL! God is love.
— Pazaria Smith
You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
Don't seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone.
— Bohdi Sanders, Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.
— Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you," would be understood: It would be practiced.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Why don't you try something really different and be the same person two days in a row?
— Reba
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosophically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation. A flight of smooth double chins led down to the dizzy depths of a still-snowy bosom veiled in snowy muslins that were held in place by a miniature portrait of the late Mr. Mingott; and around and below, wave after wave of black silk surged away over the edges of a capacious armchair, with two tiny white hands poised like gulls on the surface of the billows.
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Create a character with an obsession, then follow.
— Ray Bradbury
Your character determines how many followers you will have.
— Sunday Adelaja
A man's character is best described in his epitaph
— Marilyn L. Rice
If we lose our significance (character) we fall in ruin. The exploiters take over and sell freedom from fear, from guilt, from want. They excuse all corrupt actions. Collective status degenerates the human spirit.
— Moxie Will, Something That Will Change Your Life
True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.
— Deirdre Madden
Stay alert! Don’t let someone’s words blind you from their behavior... They can say all the right things, they can make you feel things you've never felt before, but don't be fooled; their actions will reveal their true character, desires, and priorities. Behavior speaks; pay attention to what it tells you. Behavior is math; pay attention to what it reveals.
— Steve Maraboli
I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don't have.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
When i was younger, one piece of advice from a mentor stuck with me for years...."When shaking someones hand make sure its strong and confident. For 1st impressions last and your character is automatically assumed in that one second of greeting...
— Daleen Van Tonder
When everything seems to be lacking integrity, you find it in yourself.
— Madam Secretary
Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.
— Thomas Hardy
Call me a Freak all u want really...I honestly take it as a compliment everytime. No matter how it was intended.
— Daleen Van Tonder
To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.
— David Brooks
You can’t build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,
— David Brooks
there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their desires, more aware of their own weaknesses, more intent on combatting the flaws in their own natures and turning weakness into strength.
— David Brooks
The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life.
— David Brooks
A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one's employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism.
— Bruce Weinstein
Vision and purpose fix our character.
— Kishore Bansal
If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.
— Ali B. Moe
If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.
— Shannon L. Alder
It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Reputation is made in a moment
—  Character is built over a lifetime.
It is the character of the road you travel gives you wisdom not the length of the road!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely slew it--but at fifteen it made him consider himself a great deal worse than other boys... unscrupulousness... the desire to influence people in almost every way, even for evil... a certain coldness and lack of affection, amounting sometimes to cruelty... a shifting sense of honor... an unholy selfishness... a puzzled, furtive interest in everything concerning sex.There was, also, a curious strain of weakness running crosswise through his make-up... a harsh phrase from the lips of an older boy (older boys usually detested him) was liable to sweep him off his poise into surly sensitiveness, or timid stupidity... he was a slave to his own moods and he felt that though he was capable of recklessness and audacity, he possessed neither courage, perseverance, nor self-respect.Vanity, tempered with self-suspicion if not self-knowledge, a sense of people as automatons to his will, a desire to "pass" as many boys as possible and get to a vague top of the world... with this background did Amory drift into adolescence.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateur standing had very little value in the game they were playing, a game that would presumably be her principal study for years to come. She had begun as he had, with good looks and an excitable temperament, and the rest was the result of accessible popular novels and dressing-room conversation culled from a slightly older set. Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blasé sophistication. She had lived in a larger city and had slightly an advantage in range. But she accepted his pose--it was one of the dozen little conventions of this kind of affair. He was aware that he was getting this particular favor now because she had been coached; he knew that he stood for merely the best game in sight, and that he would have to improve his opportunity before he lost his advantage. So they proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, I’m sorry to say you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.
— Ali B. Moe
Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God’s standards.
— Jim George
A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Wills aren't really strong or weak
—  it is the characters that they express and serve that are.
You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character
— Anne Frank
The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.
— James Carlos Blake
Character is formed out of those small decisions taken for granted
— Luthando Daniels
After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display.
— Rose Wynters, The Vampire's House of Pleasure: Part Two
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.
— Jennifer DeLucy
The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character—what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn’t take notice.
— Shannon L. Alder
Some women don't care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside.
— Shannon L. Alder
Your behavior is the testimony of your character.
— Saru Singhal
She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life.
— Nikki Rowe
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.
— George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House
The way you handle your problems shows your character.
— Kishore Bansal
For it is often the hardest tasks that build the most character.
— Jody Hedlund, An Uncertain Choice
Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.
— Orrin Woodward
The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married
The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.
— Unarine Ramaru
You can tell a lot about a man's character by how he behaves when given anonymity..
— Dinesh Kumar Biran
...you have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow.
— Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.
— Unarine Ramaru
It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns
— Bluenscottish
There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.
— John Huston, The Maltese Falcon
You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.
— Auliq Ice
Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).
— Eric Maisel Ph.D.
Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.
— Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena
People like you are the reason this album needed to be written in the first place. When you’ve got your salary, and your cosy little ivory tower, you’re dead happy to spout off about artistic integrity and us getting there together. But the minute you’re asked to back your promises up with some strength of character, you come apart. You say you love good music, but you can’t listen to it that carefully if you treat people like this.
— Guy Mankowski, How I Left the National Grid: A post-punk novel
You can never go wrong by doing what’s right.
— Paul T. Clark
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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?
— Django Wexler, The Forbidden Library
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
— Plato, The Republic
He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.
— Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens
But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
— Raymond Chandler
Whom one is speaking to - or which aspect of their character - fundamentally determines the meaning and consequences of an exhortation. 'Indulge Your Desires' comes across very differently on a billboard advertising SUVs than it does spray-painted across the broken windows of an SUV dealer. It follows that what you say is not nearly as important as how and when you say it.
— CrimethInc., Contradictionary
Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is.
— Kemi Sogunle
The truth is that circumstances had done much to cultivate in Mrs. Tristram a marked tendency to irony. Her taste on many points differed from that of her husband, and though she made frequent concessions it must be confessed that her concessions were not always graceful. They were founded upon a vague project she had of some day doing something very positive, something a trifle passionate. What she meant to do she could by no means have told you; but meanwhile, nevertheless, she was buying a good conscience, by installments.
— Henry James, The American
A man's integrity isn't found in what he does for others, but how he feels about it after it's done.
— MrFlufferTootle
You have to be tough and stand your ground.
— Dan Welch, The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir
My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a stubborn character.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it"."No,no. Come on, let's have some," he grinned, popping the cork, taking a swig from the bottle and passing it back. He [HST] rarely failed to show his appreciation of someone appreciating him, which is an admirable trait.
— Jay Cowan
The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.
— Nouman Ali Khan
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
— Heraclitus
All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to.
— Carol S. Dweck
Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.
— William James Moore, On Character and Mental Toughness
You have to push through every difficulty to have a breakthrough.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character.
— Lorna Jackie Wilson, Babygirl
After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.
— Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
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.
— Tom Clancy
Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor," said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public".
— William Golding
I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.
— William James Moore, On Character and Mental Toughness
The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that knowledge of her own heart, that principle of right which had not formed any essential part of her education, made her miserable under it.
— Jane Austen
The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.
— Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.
— Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character.
— Gregory Maguire
Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.
— Jonathan V. Last
A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.
— Debasish Mridha
When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.
— Debasish Mridha
For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.
— Debasish Mridha
You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.
— Jean Webster, When Patty Went to College
One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it?
— Öykü Yelkencioğlu
Personal qualities are much more important than qualifications.
— P.K. Shaw
Character and attitude deficiencies are piercing thorns depending your handhold
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Existenz only becomes clear through reason
—  reason only has content through Existenz.
Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive
— Lee Child, A Wanted Man
A man's worth can be judged through those who dislike him.
— Bill Loguidice
Actions are based on attitues but behaviours based on character
— pavankumar nagaraj
Don't judge a person by how important he is or how big he is. Judge a person by the strength of character or size of his heart.
— Glad Munaiseche
Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most readily – while the classical virtues form an organizing framework for our inner selves… for our souls.
— Jonathan V. Last
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.
— Don Roff
Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
— Paul Park, All Those Vanished Engines
If you truly have character and respecting others is your core value, you respect everybody regardless of who they are, what they believe and how they behave...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Don't judge a person by how important he is or how big he is. Judge a person by the strength of his character or size of his heart.
— Glad Munaiseche
People not only stinks because of the odor but also because of the character.
— Rashi Bishnoi
I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta
— David Brooks
A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Count your years and you'll be ashamed to be wanting and working for exactly the same things as you wanted when you were a boy. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do. Have done with those unsettled pleasures, which cost one dear - they do one harm after they're past and gone, not merely when they're in prospect. Even when they're over, pleasures of a depraved nature are apt to carry feelings of dissatisfaction, in the same way as a criminal's anxiety doesn't end with the commission of the crime, even if it's undetected at the time. Such pleasures are insubstantial and unreliable; even if they don't do one any harm, they're fleeting in character. Look around for some enduring good instead. And nothing answers this description except what the spirit discovers for itself within itself. A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness. Even if some obstacle to this comes on the scene, its appearance is only to be compared to that of clouds which drift in front of the sun without ever defeating its light.
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Charisma without character is postponed calamity.
— Peter Ajisafe
Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.
— Denis Waitley
The gap between intentions and actions is character.
— Orrin Woodward
Where your flesh is in front, your future is behind.
— Paul Enenche
A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.
— Paul Bamikole
Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.
— Raheel Farooq
A leader is not authenticated by title or position, but by character and influence, most important by leading among the pack and not in front.
— Unarine Ramaru
The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.
— Orrin Woodward
For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.
— John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
We are what we are because of what we've been
— Jo Beverley
Character isn't all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
The character of someone shouldn't be measured based on what they eat, drink or the way they dress. Character that commands following is more than demonstrating some 'nice', 'cute', 'appealing' behaviors. It is deeper than that!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Reason and justice grip the remotest and the loneliest star. Look at those stars. Don’t they look as if they were single diamonds and sapphires? Well, you can imagine any mad botany or geology you please. Think of forests of adamant with leaves of brilliants. Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire. But don’t fancy that all that frantic astronomy would make the smallest difference to the reason and justice of conduct. On plains of opal, under cliffs cut out of pearl, you would still find a notice-board, “Thou shalt not steal.
— G.K. Chesterton
You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit.
— Stephen Decatur
• you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥
— Mana'hil
The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.
— Orrin Woodward
Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
— Kevyn Aucoin
...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of trees in the avenue, where she knew [my grandfather] would pass near four o'clock on the way to his dinner, said to him, 'If I were you and you were a little girl, I would give you a doll.
— W.B. Yeats
Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Silvertone guitar, older than old school.
— Natalie Baszile, Queen Sugar
The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.
— Raheel Farooq
Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.
— David Brooks
But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.
— Ellen G. White, Patriarchs And Prophets
WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHENPersonality redefines character through phases of wisdom at different ages
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
CORE ADOREOur true worth lies in our character, not in our accomplishments
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
Character is the main object of education.
— Mary Wooley
Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.
— -Shandel Slaten
God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do.
— Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving.Be aware!
— Mehnaz Ansari
The priest motioned for the congrecation to sit, then welcomed everyone in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He wasn't so much thin as soft, with wisps of dull brown hair and oversize glasses that made him look gooberish. As he shook holy water over a bundle of cane stalks leaning against the wall, Charley wondered if his blessing would be powerful enough, because from where she sat, it looked like he'd have trouble asking for extra mayo on his sandwich.
— Natalie Baszile, Queen Sugar
Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find a suitable existing puppet. The modern novel should be largely a work of reference. Most authors spend their time saying what has been said before – usually said much better. A wealth of references to existing works would acquaint the reader instantaneously with the nature of each character, would obviate tiresome explanations and would effectively preclude mountebanks, upstarts, thimble-riggers and persons of inferior education from an understanding of contemporary literature.
— Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.
— Ellen J. Barrier, The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins
True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.
— Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untank-like as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong, you might as well have the brain if a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and them you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill equipped are we all to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof cell, summoning people out of words, and then proposing that there word people are closer to the real thing than we mangle with our ignorance every day? The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful consideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that - well, lucky you.
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral
The Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving. Be aware!!
— Mehnaz Ansari
The way a person spends his money and time can tell a lot about the things he or she values.
— Sarah Tse
Love is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without intention. Fear is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without mention. The act of loving your fear, to nurture this insecurity for a greater purpose, is to accept the reality of ones expression.
— James C. Emlund
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.
— Daya Kudari
Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.
— Don Roff
Character and Professionalism can only be seen when faced with adversity…
— Thaddeus L Edwards
The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly every government antipoverty program operates on the assumption that it doesn’t.
— David Brooks
Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.
— Christopher G. Moore, God Of Darkness
Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn't come naturally. And then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required automatically. Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices become second nature.
— N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue
—  but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.
— N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters