Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do,… — Larry Brooks
When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has… — Unknown Author
Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple… — Unknown Author
It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They… — Unknown Author
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or… — Nancy Kress
Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a… — Unknown Author
Your character is your destiny. — Unknown Author
The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their… — Ezra Taft Benson
Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let… — Wilford Woodruff
What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the best possible version… — Unknown Author
I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never… — Kenneth Lay
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane… — Michael Jackson
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected… — Hannah Arendt
Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And… — William Shatner
Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and… — Michel de Montaigne
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical… — Thomas Nagel
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. — Baruch Spinoza
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. — David Hume
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close — Jesse Owens
Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us… — Nikolai Berdyaev

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