Quotes about character
character reflection blow
Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life. Wilferd Peterson
character men average
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected. W. Somerset Maugham
character personality quality
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
character personality culture
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
character yield harmony
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
character enough knows
You can never know enough about your characters
character writing giving
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
character names common-sense
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
character writing heart
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.
character men rivers
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
character slave
My characters are galley slaves. Vladimir Nabokov
character past world
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
character chekhov emphasis
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
character doors hands
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.
character writing mind
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
character mean self
Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
character blood two
I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout. Wynton Marsalis
character mean thinking
Well I mean I think everybody was devastated because my last day on set was my death scene and so it was just sad altogether because my character was taking her last breath and I was kind of taking my last breath of air on set with everybody so it's definitely very sad. Willow Shields
character thinking people
I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way. William Petersen
character people likes
Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.
character men giving
Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit. William Makepeace Thackeray
character boomerang malice
Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
character eye men
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
character stories fables
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
character mean safe
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
character men abuse
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
character anxiety firsts
Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
character anime people
I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up. Yaya Han
character winning games
If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life. Zig Ziglar
character circumstances
Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.
character bricks habit
We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.
character winning people
A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.
character winning joy
You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.