Quotes About Character

Gone are the days when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."48

Great souls suffer in silence. JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER During

So difficult people don't just come into our lives randomly. We are drawn to them, or they are drawn to us, to help us learn our spiritual lessons. They appear in our lives because they have certain qualities that can help us on our spiritual journey. Difficult people have just what we need to help us overcome our character flaws. We

I think a good novel is a slow reveal--of the character and the plot. It's a process of discovery for the reader.

Conflict reveals character--in life and in the novel.

You are what you read. You write what you are.

Plot-driven or character-driven, a novel must grab the reader's emotions and not let go til the final word.

Good or evil, it doesn't really matter, so long as your novel's character is interesting.

I sometimes surprise myself when one of my characters says something I would never say.

The disappointment you feel when viewing the movie version of a character you've imagined while reading the novel.

the ways in which the other deities found their way into the profile and character of Israel's god. So the place of the other deities is not simply alongside Israel's deity but within the god Yahweh as well as in differentiation and, at times, conflict with him. The development of a typology of convergence and differentiation

Influence and inspiration come from the person, not the position.

You don't need a title to be a leader in life. And the simple fact of having a title won't make you a leader.

We have a bad habit of presenting ourselves in a manner that seems to believe that righteousness is a change agent. It is not. Righteousness is the goal. Jesus is the only change agent.

C. S. Lewis wrote of temptation, "No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

instead of purifying my character I was multiplying my wants.

We can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order." He viewed economics through a Buddhist lens, asserting that "the essence of civilization [is] not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character.

Character is you doing what is right when no one is looking and no one will know.

The old English preacher Charles Spurgeon said: "A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts and not marble.

How sad. I've just had a walk down The Grange and passed an angry old man from my old church. He just turned round, stood, and glared, shaking his head at me. I don't understand why people are sometimes so hostile and never seem to be able to let go. This poor chap and many like him have attended church every week of their lives, and yet it seems to have had no impact whatsoever on their characters. Alas, it is a mystery indeed.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.