Character Is Defined By Quotes

#1. The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of the usual conditions of their lives. That's when the truth of who they are is revealed ...

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. 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

#3. A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

Arthur Miller

#4. Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.

Stephanie Ayers

#5. The colonel laughed, effectively halting Bingley's speech. "Uncharacteristically reclusive? Do we speak if the same man? Darcy's very character is defined by his reclusiveness! He prefers to keep his own counsel, especially when he ought to do the opposite - the bacon-brained buffoon.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#6. Love was something that did much to change a person. It brought joy as it brought suffering, and in turn brought about those moments that defined one's character.

Renee Ahdieh

#7. A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions.

Linda Alfiori

#8. Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific long-term goal and to do whatever it takes until the goal has been achieved. That's called GRIT (defined as courage and resolve; strength of character).

Bob Mayer

#9. New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its character - like tar in an oak barrel lending its flavor to Scotch.

Miles Watson

#10. Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming

Mary Wigman

#11. Life changes. It's usually in the blink of an eye. One minute everything's fine, if not stagnant; then, it's not. But your character's not defined by what happens to you but by how you respond to those emotionally significant events. Who will you become when your life turns on a dime?

Bobby Cole

#12. The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

Mona Charen

#13. Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.

Criss Jami

#14. Success can be defined as how hard you continue to fight when they tell you that the battle is over.

Mark W. Boyer

#15. As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

Caroline Dries

#16. True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#17. Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.

Clair Bee

#18. The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

Jerome K. Jerome

#19. And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

Bainbridge Colby

#20. I think it's necessary when you're dealing with a dark show that has explosion and violence to have defined moments of lightness and humor, even romance. It's important, and it deepens the character, of course.

Wentworth Miller

#21. Dramatically, the moment in 'Gravity' that was hardest to nail down is when Ryan is in the Soyuz capsule and she realizes that she's out of fuel. That's when the character's arc gets defined.

Alfonso Cuaron

#22. People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.

Tom Felton

#23. There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Louis Garrel

#24. A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.

Suketu Mehta

#25. There is a defined gulf
Between credit and character
If you doubt this, ask any banker;
He will advise that character is nice
But it is not collateral.

Evan Rhys

#26. Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again.

J.W. Lord

#27. Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#28. The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

James A. Michener

#29. You are not defined by the clothes on your body, the shoes on your feet, or the money in your pocket. You are defined by the choices you make, the character that you choose to have, and the respect you show yourself and to those around you.

Quinn Loftis

#30. Paranoid can also be defined as "carefully smart"! Almost every episode of SVU is based on a true story; I'd watched my fill until they moronically cut Detective Stabler's fine-ass character.

Angela Graham

#31. The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Leon Trotsky

#32. I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

J. C. Watts

#33. Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

#34. I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.

Chris Eigeman

#35. Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

Charles Stanley

#36. Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

Samuel Smiles

#37. When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.

John Green

#38. He thought America's character would be defined by how it treated its vanquished enemies, and he wanted to graduate from bitter wartime grievances to the forgiving posture of peace.

Ron Chernow

#39. Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the Creator

J. Oliver Buswell

#40. If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

Eliza Coupe

#41. Our character isn't defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.

Robert Beatty

#42. To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

Fernando Pessoa

#43. For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

Robert Griffin III

#44. She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

Louisa May Alcott

#45. The worth of a person's thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has got and this quality is defined by a single factor, which is only people's human character.

Anuj

#46. On 'Scrubs,' I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that.

Neil Flynn

#47. But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

Warwick Davis

#48. 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

#49. Plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body, expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the parts; and good in the external world, expressed through social position and companionship.

Manly P. Hall

#50. Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

Michael Josephson