Quotes About Character

People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.

Choices. That's what made a man. Wasn't it?

The most important quality in a friend is to be yourself. Unless you're not a very nice person. Then you should try to be somebody else.

What we are on the inside, what we continually think about, eventually shows in our words, actions, and even on our countenances.

Are you going to judge God by the circumstances you don't understand or judge the circumstances in the light of the character of God?

God wants us to focus on becoming like Christ, on shaping our character into His image.

Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They have a strong sense of character and live the way we ought to: dogs never compare you to your sister nor make judgments in her favor. Dogs never know what is coming and so live purely in the moment, savoring the good, doing their best to endure the bad--and they offer up this miraculous example so that we can learn from it.

Sometimes the catalyst can be a piece of information that a character receives. Such a catalyst orients the audience to the subject of the story through dialogue

Where is the character coming from? What's motivating the character? What's the central conflict? Who's the antagonist? This is Act One development.

The trouble was that he happened to possess a very special faculty—a faculty for telling a person's character simply by smelling of him. He could smell out the innermost souls of people.

When swords appear, motives are revealed. Do

Battles are the proving grounds of what you already have put into practice.

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

Society's future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.