Character Is Determined Quotes

#1. Not only thinking and feeling are determined by man's character structure but also his actions.

Erich Fromm

#2. No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.

Michael Josephson

#3. Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

Aristotle.

#4. Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

Paul Tillich

#5. The quality of a man is not determined by the opinions that others hold of him, nor by the opinions that he holds of himself. The quality of a man is determined only by his actions and the choices that he makes. Only that and that alone.

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#6. One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow.

Colette Freedman

#7. Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

Thomas Metzinger

#8. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself and her family ridiculous.

Jane Austen

#9. I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.

Mark Billingham

#10. Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.

Michael Josephson

#11. The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

Chris Crutcher

#12. The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

Franz Boas

#13. True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Corliss Lamont

#14. A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

Russell D. Moore

#15. Alice was pretty enough and played piano well, but she was educated in excess of a lady's requirements. She was also possessed of a quiet, stubborn strength of character that had discouraged beaux less determined than Henry Holliday, a Georgia planter ten years her senior.

Mary Doria Russell

#16. I am determined not to assume the sacerdotal office, for I have seen many men whom I have regarded as persons of good character and liberal dispositions, degenerate into avarice, sloth, and dissipation, in consequence of their introduction into the priesthood

Poggio Bracciolini

#17. 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

#18. Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that

Bruce H. Lipton

#19. Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the homes, the dimension and character of the dreams.

Colson Whitehead

#20. Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

Allen Lacy

#21. My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

James Ellroy

#22. The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

Phillips Brooks

#23. Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive

Lee Child

#24. It's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

Fanny Kemble

#25. I assured him I was naturally hard - very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character

Charlotte Bronte

#26. Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Alfred North Whitehead

#27. We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

#28. Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

#30. Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love
a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied.

Tessa Dare

#31. Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.

Charles W. Colson

#32. The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

Bill Courtney

#33. Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.

Leon Wieseltier

#34. If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

Jamie O'Neill

#35. The wealth of our character is determined by what we push ourselves to become.

A.R. Ivanovich

#36. The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

J.G. Holland

#37. Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.

Lettie Cowman

#38. If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

Tom Stoppard

#39. A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

Herbert Spencer

#40. How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

Harold Rosenberg

#41. He could not name precisely the special quality she possessed. A glow. An exuberance. An aggressive and determined joy that gave her the courage to push past his defenses, to confront him with unflinching courage, to look into his heart and to see something there worth fighting for.

Susan Wiggs