Quotes about Character
This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.
— Damian Lewis
People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.
— John Maxwell
Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
— Oprah Winfrey
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.
— James Montgomery Boice
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
— Cicero
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
— Marcus Aurelius
How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone on the journey with the character, suffered with and experienced the joys and triumphs of the character, as well as learned the lessons and truths, only then have you, the author, done your job.
— Susan May Warren
For a second she saw the brother she'd known better than herself. Proud, strong, faithful, determined, and yes, just reckless enough to save them all.
— Susan May Warren
Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many
— Susan May Warren
But Dani made him feel like the guy he wanted to be. Trustworthy. Honorable. She wanted him want to be more, to do anything to see respect - even love - in her eyes
— Susan May Warren
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
— Evelyn Underhill
Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.
— Matshona Dhliwayo