Top 74 Character Inspiration Quotes
#1. The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.
Charlene Costanzo
#2. Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character.
Abhijit Naskar
#3. Godly character is what you are when you've been tried and proven. It is not what you say you are, or what people think you are but, instead, it is what shines through after you have suffered and have endured. It is the proof of your genuineness.
Robin Bertram
#4. The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.
Charlene Costanzo
#5. A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired. ~ [introduction of character Montparnasse]
Victor Hugo
#6. It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.
John C. Maxwell
#7. I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him
Leonard Nimoy
#8. A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.
Federico Tesio
#9. A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.
Raheel Farooq
#10. Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.
Robert McKee
#12. What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#13. Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
Joe Nichols
#14. The fourth gift is Compassion. May you be gentle with yourself and others. May you forgive those who hurt you and yourself when you make mistakes.
Charlene Costanzo
#15. The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it.
Charlene Costanzo
#16. The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it
Marti Melville
#17. We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
Roy Bennett
#18. Letti wasn't born to pass through the world. She had been born to sit atop of it.
S.R. Crawford
#19. Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
Roy Bennett
#20. Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.
Eliza Green
#21. The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
Stephen Gardiner
#23. Yes, it hurts to fall
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#24. If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#25. The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.
Charlene Costanzo
#26. Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.
Dylan McDermott
#27. The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.
Charlene Costanzo
#28. I write to be the characters that I am not.
Joss Whedon
#29. I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.
Joel Kinnaman
#30. The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.
Ellen G. White
#31. The sixth gift is Joy. May it keep your heart open and filled with light.
Charlene Costanzo
#32. Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
Aristotle.
#33. The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
John Kricfalusi
#34. Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.
Don Roff
#35. God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do.
Kristiane Backer
#37. The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing
William James Moore
#38. While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!
Nicholas Sparks
#39. Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. The character, therefore, will depend upon the thoughts. I am what I think. I am what I think even more than what I do, for it is the thought that interprets the action. An act in itself good may become even bad by the thought that inspired it.
Basil W. Maturin
#41. But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.
Elizabeth George
#42. In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon
George F. Will
#43. Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.
Abhijit Naskar
#44. The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.
Keanu Reeves
#45. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
Joseph Campbell
#46. Clearing away the excess whittles life down to its bare essence, revealing purity of heart, integrity of character and inspiration of purpose,
Kathleen Ann Harper
#47. When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.
Lorraine Toussaint
#48. Kathy Burke has been a real inspiration. I think she's brilliant. I like the fact she doesn't care what she looks like on TV and just gets really into character. Obviously, she can do drama as well, but it's her comedy I love.
Sheridan Smith
#49. The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams.
Charlene Costanzo
#50. I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.
Robert Englund
#51. Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.
Vera Farmiga
#53. In Chinese, the character for danger is the same one for opportunity." -- Kim Ling Levine in Madhattan Mystery
John J. Bonk
#54. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
Charlotte Eriksson
#55. I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
Amanda Burton
#56. Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold
Charlene Costanzo
#57. Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.
C.J. Redwine
#58. People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to
Simon S. Tam
#59. My sister was the inspiration for the character, the good qualities instilled in the character. The initial inspiration was there, but Stargirl has taken on a life of her own. She's her own character now.
Geoff Johns
#60. I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character. However, I do have many inspirations from the worlds of literature, music, comedy and film.
Doc Brown
#61. If you are humble enough to admit to your flaws then you are capable of correcting them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#62. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
Israelmore Ayivor
#63. The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation.
Charlene Costanzo
#64. For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
Scott Bradfield
#65. The eleventh gift is Love. It will grow each time you give it away.
Charlene Costanzo
#66. Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.
Sara Sheridan
#67. Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
Roy Bennett
#68. As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what emotions are aroused and what character of music.
Edgar Cayce
#69. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
#71. Tolkien was such a brilliant writer in so many ways. He was truly an inspiration. Many people don't realize just how much he researched and how much he based his stories and characters on mythology of various types. He was very deep and in many ways a genius.
Raymond Buckland
#72. To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer ... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.
Elliott Yamin
#73. The 4 pillars Of the Greatest Religion ever Are Love Trust Character & Brotherhood ...
Sujit Lalwani
#74. The shadow of a character is defined by its maker...while a heroine is personified by its actions and relatability. So writers can create a world with a heroine that has impact and finish with everessence lights at the dims of its shadows
Raquelle Stepney
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