Character Quotes
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"Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though 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."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters."
Quote by -Carol Burnett
"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project."
Quote by -Denis Waitley
"Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these."
Quote by -John Burroughs
"I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."
Quote by -Dale Carnegie
"I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am."
Quote by -Dawn French
"Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of."
Quote by -Bryce Dallas
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Motivation theory is not synonymous with behavior theory. The motivations are only one class of determinants of behavior. While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Persons of this character will proceed to an examination of the plan submitted by the convention, not only without a disposition to find or to magnify faults; but will see the propriety of reflecting, that a faultless plan was not to be expected. Nor will they barely make allowances for the errors which may be chargeable on the fallibility to which the convention, as a body of men, were liable; but will keep in mind, that they themselves also are but men, and ought not to assume an infallibility in rejudging the fallible opinions of others. With equal readiness will it be perceived, that besides these inducements to candor, many allowances ought to be made for the difficulties inherent in the very nature of the undertaking referred to the convention.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.
Quote by -Robert Ervin Howard
I'm a fan of the fan. I'm a fan of the active devotee who lives his life believing in something, who represents to me the character of a person that is very confident and sure of himself. Those are people I admire.
Quote by -Zoe Saldana
I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
Quote by -Zoe Saldana
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Quote by -Zoe Saldana
I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no only give audiences an adventure but also give us as artists an opportunity for us to be challenged to embody amazing, multilayered characters.
Quote by -Zoe Saldana
I knew who Leonard Nimoy was, and that he embodied what Star Trek meant to all the fans. But it wasn't until I started doing my research for this movie, and started going to fan sites, that I began to fall in love with these characters.
Quote by -Zoe Saldana
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.
Quote by -Zhuangzi
The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.
Quote by -Wallace Stevens
I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.
Quote by -William Godwin
The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.
Quote by -William Godwin
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Quote by -William Makepeace
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
Quote by -William Makepeace
They talked about each others’ houses, and characters, and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.
Quote by -William Makepeace
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
Quote by -Winona Ryder