Character Quotes by Donald Miller

16 Character quotes by Donald Miller

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Miller’s narrative‑flavored take on character merges storytelling craft with self‑development. Sixteen concise pieces invite you to view personal growth as a plot you can actively shape, making the abstract feel concrete.

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“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

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“Work on your character and a good life will come to you.”

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It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

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A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

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“Of all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually…

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Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and…

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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The…

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Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral…

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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a…

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“You can call it God or a conscience… but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward…

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But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more…

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“You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human…

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I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the…

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If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything,…

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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If…

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