Character Quote by Nathan Huggins

“The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.”

— Victor Hugo

“Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I seemed to…

— Fernando Pessoa

“During this time, I proved to myself that I was as good as other authors who had achieved the same stature. But I quickly…

— Colette Baron Reid

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying to be…

— Erik Pevernagie

“You were endowed with a wide range of abilities by your Creator. Use them to change your life, help others and shine your light.…

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty though powerless,…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“For a long time then I seemed to live by the slender thread of faith, spun out from within me. From this single thread…

— Wendell Berry

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

“There was power all around, that power and that goodness, which make us come, as it were, outside our bodily selves, to share them.…

— R.D. Blackmore

“A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives. They…

— Gregory Maguire