- Nov 07, 2020
Character Quotes
Character shows up in fiction, politics and physics.
"Character" is used two distinct ways in this collection — as a literary term about how a fictional character carries moral weight, and as a description of personal integrity tied to one's politics and work. For traits and personality more broadly, see Personality quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm lucky enough to have the chance to play a character, I'm going to give it my all. Play my position and give it 100%.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've watched my mom take a plain piece of paper and create something beautiful out of it, and I think that kind of manifested for me in taking a character from the page and bringing that to life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you meet someone on the street that likes something that you did or likes the way you brought this character to life, that's really rewarding. That's really cool.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the quality of their thought is very closely identified and analysed.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you talk about a daily soap, it means one would be seen 28 days a month, which requires 30 days of shooting. So an actor being seen on a show airing four days a week and being telecast thrice a day comes along with a baggage of the character.
- Emphasized
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020