Quotes About Character

It's always a dangerous thing for a writer to resurrect a character. It threatens to undermine the consequences in a story, and minimizes the risks characters take.

no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

it was beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

What we know matters, but who we are matters more.

who we are' is at least as important as 'what we want to achieve.

Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs. —Joan Didion

How can we apologize for something we are, rather than something we did?

Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; it's choosing what's right over what's fun, fast, or easy; and it's practicing your values, not just professing them.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?" As

She was everything I thought she'd be. Fierce and kind. Gentle and tough.

Joseph Chilton Pearce writes, "What we are teaches the child more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Choosing what's right over what's easy has become my mantra.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

What we are teaches the child more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them. Living

We feel admiration when someone's abilities, accomplishments, or character inspires us, or when we see something else that inspires us, like art or nature. Interestingly, admiration often leads to us wanting to improve ourselves. It doesn't, however, make us want to be like the person or thing we admire—we just want to be better versions of ourselves.

We feel admiration when someone's abilities, accomplishments, or character inspires us, or when we see something else that inspires us, like art or nature. Interestingly, admiration often leads to us wanting to improve ourselves.

How and why am I only hearing about what feels like a character issue after I lost the promotion? I use this as an example because it happens every day. We're so afraid to talk about trust that our team members don't even know it's an issue until there are irreversible consequences. It's totally demoralizing.

Besides, there was always the chance that Sir Frederick was being less than honest; his reputation, after all, was far from savoury.

The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person

DeBow's Review noted with contempt. "It is a melancholy exemplification of the facility with which a philanthropist, who devotes himself exclusively to the eradication of one form of evil, can deceive himself, and come to regard any means justifiable, in the pursuance of a supposed good end," the reviewer said. "That subtle analyst of character, Nathaniel Hawthorne, has ably dissected this species of delusion in the Blithedale romance." He recommended that Stowe