Quotes About Developing Character

#1. Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who's involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

Stephen Covey

#3. Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

Orison Swett Marden

#4. Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing

Aamir Khan

#5. The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only distract and alienate certain audiences, it would limit who has access to the film, and that's something I think a lot about with this story.

Travis Mathews

#6. There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

Marisa Ramirez

#7. No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.

Rudy Giuliani

#8. There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

David Walton

#9. We can achieve even more than we could expect if we try to be less distracted by the fuss of life and concentrate more on developing some qualities or characteristic of our soul and character

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

Dalai Lama

#11. When developing a business story, keep in mind that the opposition character (shadow) is just as important as the audience character (hero) is.

Luis Cubero

#12. I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.

James Frain

#13. The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

Dick Ebersol

#14. Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Bobby Orr

#15. The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.

Brion James

#16. Developing leaders who can navigate complexity is now a strategic priority - and, if done well, a competitive advantage. Beyond developing competency and capability, we need to develop leaders with courage and compassion, consciousness and character.

Robert J. Anderson

#17. Understanding character is a vital part of the process of finding a relationship partner and developing a strong and vibrant relationship together.

Susanne M. Alexander

#18. When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

Elizabeth George

#19. I couldn't have loved her more if she was my own child. But sometimes I considered shaving her eyebrows off while she slept.
For the sake of developing her character.

Molly Harper

#20. Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

Radhanath Swami

#21. And if these men steal, if there is developing among them a suspicion and hatred of well-dressed, satisfied people, the reason is not to be sought in their origin nor in any tendency to weakness in their character.

John Steinbeck

#22. Our lives are to be characterized by patience, for it is important in developing the mature, stable character which God wants to produce in His people.

Billy Graham

#23. For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.

Henry Cloud

#24. Success comes from developing a strong inner character

Sunday Adelaja

#25. I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.

Ted Alexandro

#26. I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.

Elisha Cuthbert

#27. That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.

Edward Hirsch

#28. You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set to shoot because you've been working on the character: the way he walks, the way he talks, what might upset him, what might make him happy.

Justin Timberlake

#29. In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

Richard Gere

#30. Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.

Michael Josephson

#31. Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

Meredith Vieira

#32. Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and developing a new character.

Kathryn Hahn

#33. Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.

Richard G. Scott

#34. I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

Kaitlyn Dever

#35. There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.

Charlie Kaufman

#36. There is something really so iconic about the original Predator, and it is exciting. It's not just special effects. It's not like you bring a puppet in, these are characters and so we were involved in developing the look and the attitude of all the characters.

Gregory Nicotero

#37. Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing

Sunday Adelaja

#38. I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

Dylan McDermott

#39. Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

Jerry Bridges

#40. 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

#41. Developing the man within creates invisible changes in a man's character

Sunday Adelaja

#42. I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

Roger Zelazny

#43. I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

Raymond Buckland

#44. The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness - traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.

Ellen G. White

#45. I'm convinced every person has a longing that will never be fulfilled and it's our job to let it live and breathe and suffer within it as a way of developing our character.

Donald Miller

#46. No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#47. Discipleship is developing a personal, lifelong, obedient relationship with Jesus Christ in which He transforms your character into Christlikeness; changes your values to Kingdom values; and involves you in His mission in the home, in the church, and in the world.

Avery T. Willis Jr.

#48. Possessions and accomplishments are not the only things we envy. We can envy a person's character and personality, instead of developing the gifts God has given us (Rom. 12:6). Think

Henry Cloud

#49. God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

Tommy Tenney

#50. Can a literary character be said to live a life from birth to death or otherwise to undergo a development from beginning to end? Or is a literary character-fixed on the pages of a book, trapped forever in the same few words and actions-the very opposite of a living, developing human being?

Jack Miles

#51. When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Lori Loughlin

#52. It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.

Corin Nemec

#53. I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social problems that interest me, and that I can obsess over for a while.

Mora Stephens