Character Quotes - Page 26

• Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Parenting, Done

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.115, Zondervan

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• Imperfections create character.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Imperfection

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• People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Book, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 04, 2017

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• I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial “victim” to my new position as “co-creator” of my destiny. (Prologue, xv)

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Jobs, Destiny, Realization

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Jobs, Disappointment, Adversity

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• There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Feet, Lines

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Taken at the flood”, Berkley Pub Group

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• PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

  Aristotle

  Plot, Action

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• The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

  Milan Kundera

  Borders, Possibility, Novel

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• Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Years, Two

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.9, A&C Black

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• The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Honesty, World, Definitions

  Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Financier: Top American Novels”, p.78, 谷月社

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• Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)

  Nick Hornby

  Writing, Class, Population

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Struggle, Adversity

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• Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

  Richard G. Scott

  Teaching, Choices, Masters

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• A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Moving, Reading

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• I met Pendragon when I made the journey to the far desert. He is from the tribe known as...as..." Loor was scrambling. Bokka didn't know about the Travelers. I had to bail her out. Yankees," I said. "The Yankees tribe." Hey, what can I say? It was the first thing that came to mind. "It's a strong tribe," I added. "Respected by all...except for our mortal enemies, the Sox tribe. They hate us. Especially the Red ones. Cannibals. Nasty characters.

  D. J. MacHale

  Strong, Hate, Journey

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those. It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group. . .anything.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Hate, Race, Ideas

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• It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Gossip, Personality

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Real, Sometimes, Novel

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• Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

  Thurgood Marshall

  United States, Notorious, Calumny

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• True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Lying, Perfection

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• Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

  Fred Rogers

  Past, Who We Are

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• You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Silly, London, Scandal

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• Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

  James Hillman

  Stars, Fall, Light

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• It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

  Ian Mcewan

  Powerful, Fate, Tuning

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• A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

  Azar Nafisi

  Pain, Lying, Heart

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.132, Random House

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