Quotes About Defining Character

#1. 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

#2. Look heavenly onward.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

Jim Butcher

#4. Music is a defining element of character.

Plato

#5. The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

Keith Richards

#6. Carnot's theorem: The most efficient heat engine is one that operates reversibly.

Don S. Lemons

#7. Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

Henry Cloud

#8. Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Mignon McLaughlin

#9. Don't let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You are the director and the audience. You are in charge. Take the remote control. Change the channel. If you let your imagination run wild, let it run wild in a positive direction.

Joel Osteen

#10. There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.

Jim Webb

#11. Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

Tim Hunt

#12. Though not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown.

Thomas Hardy

#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. It is the way you feel that is your point of attraction.

Esther Hicks

#15. Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

Abraham Maslow

#16. Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#17. Placing our attention on providing consistent appreciation, approval, and applause to those we love not only focuses their energy on the good things about themselves but also teaches them to return the favor to us.

Sue Patton Thoele

#18. A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.

Joshua Harris

#19. Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Ibrahim Babangida

#20. Which is all to say maybe it's just being alive at a baseball game on a fall day in the heart of her city.

Blake Crouch

#21. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

Robert E. Howard

#22. 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

#23. Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

Christopher Heyerdahl

#24. Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#25. We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

Robert Kiyosaki

#26. Yeah. I can see that. I feel like sidekicks aren't as well developed as the main character in a story, but they're essential in defining that main character. And the protagonist needs the sidekick more than the sidekick needs the protagonist.

Penny Reid

#27. I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.

Jay Baruchel

#28. I think that most of us can identify with the change that happens to Bruce Banner. We all have a little of both inside us. I think this is an important theme in defining the character.

Herb Trimpe

#29. Character is what we do when no one else is watching"

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#30. Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.

Henry Laurens