Character Quotes - Page 6

God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do.

Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving.Be aware!

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

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

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

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Richard Rohr

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive

Lee Child

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have to push through every difficulty to have a breakthrough.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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