All Quotes

Character is long-standing habit.
‐‐ Plutarch

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

Character is more important than talent.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

Character is much easier kept than recovered.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.
‐‐ Rod Paige

Character is power.
‐‐ Booker T. Washington

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
‐‐ John Howe

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

Character is simply habit long continued.
‐‐ Plutarch

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.
‐‐ Douglas Southall Freeman

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
‐‐ George Saunders

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
‐‐ Tom Landry

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
‐‐ Cavett Robert

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
‐‐ George Santayana

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.
‐‐ Douglas Southall Freeman

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
‐‐ Charles Henry Parkhurst

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
‐‐ David Hume

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.
‐‐ Douglas Southall Freeman

Character is what a man is in the dark.
‐‐ Dwight L. Moody

Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
‐‐ Evan Esar

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
‐‐ Yousuf Karsh

Character matters; leadership descends from character.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
‐‐ Aristotle

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
‐‐ Booker T. Washington

Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.
‐‐ David Hanson

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
‐‐ Catherine O'Hara

Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.
‐‐ Mark Hamill

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
‐‐ Donna Tartt

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
‐‐ Aristophanes

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
‐‐ Robert Ludlum

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
‐‐ Michael Tippett

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
‐‐ Aimee Carter

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.
‐‐ Robert Boswell

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
‐‐ E. L. Konigsburg

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
‐‐ Michael Zaslow

Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
‐‐ John Slattery

Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader's tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction.
‐‐ Ben Peek

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas