Defines Character Quotes

#1. Overcoming negative experiences defines character and increases wisdom.

Kamil Ali

#2. One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,' and I think it's a good saying. I also think it applies to more than just the players.

Chris Kluwe

#3. Relationships are built on the good and the bad, it's how we handle each situation that defines our character.

Melody Anne

#4. And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

Thomas Hobbes

#5. The metal frame groans, and something under the hood lets out a mechanical hiss. Smoke billows up from the front, the universal symbol for you're screwed.

Anna Banks

#6. Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.

William Fichtner

#7. I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

Vladimir Kramnik

#8. There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

Kevin Costner

#9. Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

Kathryn Lasky

#10. Your attitude defines your personality. Your personality refines your attitude. Together they make up your character.

Tanya Masse

#11. Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.

Ellen Klages

#12. No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

Robert Bork

#13. Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.

Shannon L. Alder

#14. Pain defines moments in the lives of all human beings. The trial is not the endurance of pain but the choices we make regarding how to endure.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.

Terry Goodkind

#16. Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

Nev Schulman

#17. Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad.

Sonny Barger

#18. I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

Bret Easton Ellis

#19. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Walter Anderson

#20. I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I have people listening to music that I would never listen to personally, because it fits and defines their character.

George Pelecanos

#21. And the whole mess had been made possible by middle America's relentless appetite - for bigger houses, bigger portfolios, bigger government programs, bigger everything, and damn the long-term cost.

Ross Douthat

#22. All work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one's own eyes - which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification -which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

Ayn Rand

#23. You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.

Dave Calhoun

#24. How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. What can that mean except that women's sexuality is what really defines them, not their brains and gifts and individuality and character, and certainly not their wishes or their ambitions or their will?

Katha Pollitt

#26. Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.

Damon Galgut

#28. Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.

Lucrecia Martel