Quotes About Character

Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.

I hate to lose but having the belt doesn't define who I am. It's how I live my life and what I put into things is what defines me.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!

Call me Dolores. Like they do in the stories.

The Art of BiographyIs different from Geography.Geography is about Maps,But Biography is about Chaps.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Do you think a person is as bad as her worst actions?...I mean, do our worst actions define us when we're alive? Or, do you think human beings are better than the very worst things we have ever done?

After a minute, Gat leaned back and let me go first. "Not because you're a girl but because I'm a good person," he told me.

The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn't static. It's an adaptation.

Like, in Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp is one big ambition machine. She'll stop at zero. Jane Eyre has temper tantrums, throws herself on the floor. Pip in Great Expectations is deluded and money hungry. All of them want a better life and go after it, and all of them are morally compromised. That makes them interesting.

In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad business man and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Money lost -- little lost. Honour lost -- much lost. Pluck lost -- all lost.

A dwarf will fight for honor, but a man will kill for pride." Auron thought for a moment. "What's the difference?" "Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself.

Never favour those who flatter you most, but hold rather to those who risk your displeasure for your own good. Never neglect business for pleasure, organise your life so that there is time in it for relaxation and entertainment. Give the business of government your full attention. Inform yourself as much as you can before taking any decision. Make every effort to get to know men of distinction, so that you may call on them when you need them. Be courteous to all, speak hurtfully to no man.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.