Quotes About Character

Not everyone is going to like you, son. And good people don't do good so that they'll win popularity contests. They do good because its the right thing to do.

Every character has a back story. It's what makes them fully formed and believable. But resist the urge to describe your character's past with a data dump of everything they ever experienced since birth. The best way to reveal a character's back story is through the character's actions/dialogue on the page.

People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.

Southern Cheap is, I'm gonna eat stale cookies while I serve you these fresh, warm buttered biscuits. Yankee Cheap is, I've got ten million dollars in the bank but I'm gonna cut off the thermostat during a blizzard and here's my great-great-grandpa's mothballed coat from the War of 1812 if you don't have the character and fortitude to generate your own body heat.

People did not change their basic, core personalities.

Will had underestimated the man's doucheness. Faith could smell it coming off him like damp in a basement.

Dr. Carroll," the warden said, his voice sounding like Foghorn Leghorn, "Ben Carver is a psychopath. He's incapable of empathy or remorse. If you see something human in him, that's only because he's playing the part.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

As individuals express their life, so they are.

Illi unum consilium habent et virtutem et potestatem suam bestiae tradunt. Et ne quis possit emere aut vendere, nisi qui habet characterem aut nomen bestiae aut numerum nominis ejus.

God uses the obstacles in our lives to prepare us for leadership, building courage, character, and confidence.

He was his mother's son, kind and gentle. She was her father's daughter, quick of mind, fascinated by intrigue and all that went with it. But

They all chose Indian names for themselves. Teddy was Little Fox ("Naturally," Ursula said). Nancy was Little Wolf ("Honiahaka" in Cheyenne, Mrs. Shawcross said. She had a book she referred to). Mrs. Shawcross herself was Great White Eagle ("Oh, for heaven's sake," Sylvie said, "talk about hubris").

One of the things Jackson liked about Julia was her independence, one of the things he didn't like about Julia was her independence.

Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.