Quotes About Character Growth

#1. One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.

Maria Semple

#2. Self- examination is essential if you want to heal and become whole. Through self-examination the Holy Spirit will show you what you need to change or deal with. Taking responsibility for your hurt and pain will lead to internal changes, character growth and needed personality changes.

Michael Barbarulo

#3. Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

Larry Crabb

#4. Letti wasn't born to pass through the world. She had been born to sit atop of it.

S.R. Crawford

#5. When we are depleted our giving is empty. Today I take a moment to recharge, fill up with love for my life and all of its character so that I may give from a place of overflowing.

Lisa Wimberger

#6. Don't you dare feel guilty for letting those who dim your light, go. Not everyone you meet deserves to be a character in your story.

Nikki Rowe

#7. The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .

John Maynard Keynes

#8. There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

David O. McKay

#9. This "Not Today" attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth.

David Mitchell

#10. I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

Adam Johnson

#12. Books ... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#13. I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.

C. JoyBell C.

#14. For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

Stendhal

#15. The church growth movement has made many lasting contributions to our practice of ministry. But its overemphasis on technique and results can put too much pressure on ministers because it underemphasizes the importance of godly character and the sovereignty of God.

Timothy Keller

#16. One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#17. Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character.

Beau Sides

#18. Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Cesar Chavez

#19. Trials and difficulties may assail the life of a believer, but they also have the ability to remold his character and banish from his life those impurities which might impair growth and service.

Billy Graham

#20. Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

Michael R. French

#21. Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

Hugo Hamilton

#22. She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

Stacy Hawkins Adams

#23. Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God.

Rick Warren

#24. Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved.

Rabindranath Tagore

#25. It is the 'Teacher', that shapes a novice; not only with his studies, but character too.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#26. Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

Paul Brunton

#27. Weak or strong, everyone falls at least a thousand times throughout their life. It is in what they learn from their fall and how steady they become that you recognize the strongest of all." -Grandma (Magdalen)

Lydhia Marie

#28. If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.

Spencer W. Kimball

#29. You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

Herman Edwards

#30. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.

Tom Wicker

#32. Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#33. 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

#34. Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.

Katherine Reutter

#36. A person's work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#37. Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.

Thomas Huxley

#38. You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

Marc Maron

#39. The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.

Katherine Paterson

#40. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Charlotte Eriksson

#41. If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

David Viscott

#42. When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of "busy-ness" the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.

Tony Curl

#43. Life was hard. Life was good. Most folks think this a contradiction, but I have learned that the hardest, most difficult times of my life caused the most growth in my character.

Chuck Black

#44. I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are all kind of people in it. It's showing growth, and in today's world there are so many outlets.

Darius McCrary

#45. You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.

Angelica Hopes

#46. You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.

Jean Webster

#47. We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes ... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.

Vince Lombardi

#48. Conversation with a view to timely instruction will help to build up a strong Christian character and stimulate growth in grace.

F.F. Bruce

#49. I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

Keri Russell

#50. It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

Nelson Mandela

#51. All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to.

Carol S. Dweck

#52. When we justify a flaw we are actually inventing a new one. When a woman neglects developing her own character, she not only chisels away her own reputation, but the reputation of everyone in her household.
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#53. Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.

Dallas Willard

#54. How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

Hyrum W. Smith

#55. The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.

Steve Goodier

#56. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

Auliq Ice

#57. In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.

Shannon L. Alder

#58. In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.

Harold B. Lee

#59. Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

Imre Lakatos

#60. Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.

Vishwas Chavan

#61. Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.

Ashim Shanker

#62. I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

Dave Dravecky

#63. The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you - whether you know it consciously or not.

Grace Sara

#64. What are we if we are not disciplined?

Rob Liano