Quotes About Character

We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to strengthen our character. He can use evil to accomplish good (precisely the nature of the discussion in the book of Habakkuk). God's sovereignty is demonstrated in that whatever personal or nonpersonal agents do, God takes it and turns it to his purpose.

The Hebrew word for meek really means "to be molded." The

A man in his late twenties, with the minimal dress sense and mixture of earnestness and confusion which led Millington to mark him down as a social worker

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme.

Manly deeds, womanly hands.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Aldred the weasel took up the tale.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.

In Chinese, the character for danger is the same one for opportunity." -- Kim Ling Levine in Madhattan Mystery

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as his friends. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad

Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

Los procedimientos existen para impedir el contacto, no para favorecerlo. La gente sin imaginación y sin ideas llena su cabeza con programas y procedimientos. La gente con carácter sabe cuándo prescindir de los procedimientos.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

As to the poetical character itself… it is not itself—it has no self—it is every thing and nothing… It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an Imogen.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

I defy any man to be a pessimist on the subject of American character after a season or two on the lecture platform; provided of course that he is a reasonably sympathetic man, and is so constituted in matters social that he is what the politicians call a "good mixer."

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit.

Really, when you get to know him Ike's OK. I mean not grouchy or anything and not too bright. I mean OK for a general – you wouldn't want him to be President or anything like that.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

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