One True Character Quotes

#1. She scanned the Starveil posts, her mood darkening. Spartan had been a part of her life since elementary school. Losing him felt like having a piece of herself torn away. No amount of fix-it fics or alternate universes could change the fact her one true character had died.

Danika Stone

#2. New thing is made in writting books, (novels, short stories... stories...)... It's to be build a character which you will love you will like him.... and one moment he dies... isn't it awesome?

Deyth Banger

#3. A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

A.W. Tozer

#5. O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Hosea Ballou

#6. The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

John Wooden

#7. The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.

Robert Benchley

#8. We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. 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

#11. True strength is shown by the gentle kindness in one's character.

James Kuiken

#12. It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.

Sandor Marai

#13. The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#14. A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

George Oppen

#15. True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

Fielding H. Yost

#16. If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.

Tiffany Madison

#17. Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.

Antonya Nelson

#18. The fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

Helen McCloy

#19. The true measure
of your character
is what you would
do if you were sure
no one would ever
find out.

John C. Maxwell

#20. No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Seneca The Younger

#21. I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

Anne Frank

#22. It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Christopher Earle

#23. There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

Tess Gerritsen

#24. Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.

Mary Lee Settle

#25. Who is the ultimate dreamer? Call it as you will: God, higher consciousness, Krishna, spirit, whatever pleases you.. One dream, one dreamer, billions of embodied characters acting out that one dream.. Your true essence is that you are part and parcel of the one big dream.

Wayne Dyer

#26. It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Camille Pissarro

#27. There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

George Bernard Shaw

#28. The true measure of a person's character is how one handles one's failures, not successes.

Bill Courtney

#29. It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

Franz Grillparzer

#30. No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Marcelene Cox

#31. Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

Anjelica Huston

#32. No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#33. For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

Dean Norris

#34. One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

Anne Lamott