Character Defining Quotes

#1. ... he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

Arundhati Roy

#2. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

Jim Butcher

#3. Music is a defining element of character.

Plato

#4. I just like being on stage and making people happy.

Madison Pettis

#5. Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Albert Einstein

#6. Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

Henry Cloud

#7. If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I?
Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living.

Erich Fromm

#8. If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

Toni Morrison

#9. There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.

Jim Webb

#10. A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Mike Gordon

#11. Though not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown.

Thomas Hardy

#12. I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.

C. JoyBell C.

#13. The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#15. The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

Samuel Adams

#16. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. Character is what we do when no one else is watching"

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#18. A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.

Joshua Harris

#19. Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Ibrahim Babangida

#20. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

Robert E. Howard

#21. How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

Hyrum W. Smith

#22. I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

Gary Bauer

#23. The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

John Keats

#25. Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#26. We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

Robert Kiyosaki

#27. Yeah. I can see that. I feel like sidekicks aren't as well developed as the main character in a story, but they're essential in defining that main character. And the protagonist needs the sidekick more than the sidekick needs the protagonist.

Penny Reid

#28. I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.

Jay Baruchel

#29. Make better coffee and you make a whole bunch of people a whole lot happier.

Isaac Hooke

#30. I think that most of us can identify with the change that happens to Bruce Banner. We all have a little of both inside us. I think this is an important theme in defining the character.

Herb Trimpe

#31. I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

Maya Angelou

#32. men can be hoes too.

R H Sin