Quotes with character

  • A character is a completely fashioned will.
  • Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
  • What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
  • 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
  • In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
  • A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
  • You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
  • The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
  • Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
  • To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
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  • John Wooden Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Novalis A character is a completely fashioned will.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Evan Esar A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
    Evan Esar
    American humorist (1899 - 1995)
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  • Henry Ford Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Faith Baldwin Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
    Faith Baldwin
    American author of romance and fiction (1893 - 1978)
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  • John Howe Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Plutarch Character is simply habit long continued.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • André Maurois If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Publilius Syrus A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Jean Paul A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • August Strindberg A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Hosea Ballou A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche ''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Heraclitus Character is our destiny.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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