Character Quotes

Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but are the light inside.

Cassandra Clare

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.

Rosario Dawson

My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.

Alanna Ubach

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

L. P. Jacks

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Jodi Picoult

He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

William Shakespeare

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

Character is what you are in the dark.

Dwight L. Moody

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

Oscar Wilde

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.

C.S. Lewis

The things you learn in maturity aren’t simple things such as acquiring information and skills. You learn not to engage in self-destructive behavior. You learn not to burn up energy in anxiety. You discover how to manage your tensions. You learn that self-pity and resentment are among the most toxic of drugs. You find that the world loves talent but pays off on character.

John Gardner

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Colin Hay

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

John Luther

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Henry David Thoreau

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

William James