Character Quotes

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  Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Skills, Giving

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• I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Swings, Play

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• You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

  Carlos Ghosn

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• The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Tests, Tongue

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• The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

  Bela Lugosi

  Romantic Love, Ghouls, Vampire

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• If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

  John Lydon

  School, Kids, Church

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• No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Chekhov, Emphasis, Pathetic

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1981). “Lectures on Russian literature”, Harcourt

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• Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

  Billy Sunday

  People, Cash, Wealth

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• I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Art, Real

  "WWD CEO Summit: Marc Jacobs". Interview with Jessica Iredale, wwd.com. January 9, 2013.

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• 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

  Jesus, Thinking, Add

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• Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Choices, Deep Thought, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Nov 14, 2015

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• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  Salma Hayek

  Thinking, Remembered, Knows

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• Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

  Bruce Lee

  Wisdom, Respect, Knowledge

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.46, Tuttle Publishing

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• The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

  Mark Haddon

  Creating, Way, Conform

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• What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

  Augustus Hare

  Information, Praise, Standards

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• Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

  Alfred Adler

  Motivational, Fear, Learning

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• Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

  Willy Mason

  Fun, Writing, Perspective

  "Willy Mason’s Got Gold". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2013.

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Apology, Apologizing

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Encouragement, Mean

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.

  Lettie Cowman

  Determined, Restraint, Ifs

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• Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

  Evan Esar

  Personality, Lost Everything, Favourite

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• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Family, Happiness

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