Top 60 Reveal Character Quotes
#1. For most people, going through adversity tends to reveal character rather than build it.
David Chill
#2. Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be President. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders.
Fred Thompson
#3. Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.
Ben Bass
#5. Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.
Zig Ziglar
#6. The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts.
Paul David Tripp
#7. I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.
Van Day Truex
#8. The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.
David Breashears
#9. Stressful situations cause alterations in behavior that reveal true character, Tibbs. If a person gradually begins acting like someone else altogether, you may very well find that they *are* someone else altogether" -Inspector Percival Pensive
Jessica Lawson
#10. It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.
E. M. Forster
#11. In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.
David Ayer
#12. Each time I discovered a potential link between one character's story and another's, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.
Richard Scarsbrook
#13. There's no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it'll teach you its rhythm.
Henry Mosquera
#14. To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.
Zelda La Grange
#15. Sports don't build character; they reveal it.
John Wooden
#16. To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify God is to reveal his character by being who we were created to be-the embodiment of the image of God in human form.
James W. Sire
#17. The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.
Roddy Doyle
#18. It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
John Osborne
#19. How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others
Aron Ralston
#20. Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.
Liev Schreiber
#22. Crisis doesn't necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it.
John C. Maxwell
#23. Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.
Greg Rucka
#24. Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
David Bailey
#25. Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.
Uta Hagen
#26. Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
Anne Lamott
#27. The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
Abraham Lincoln
#28. I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to reveal, and what behaviors or stances the character tries out on the shrink that might not be part of the character's make-up outside of that room. It's an emotional test-kitchen.
Jill Davis
#29. EYou reveal your character by what you do with what you have.
GE Paulus
#30. The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character and love. The children of God are to manifest His glory. In their own life and character they are to reveal what the grace of God has done for them.
Ellen G. White
#31. The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.
Anne Tyler
#32. Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.
Dana Spiotta
#33. Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#34. You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance ... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.
Steve Maraboli
#35. It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
Maria Jeritza
#36. Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
William Arthur Ward
#37. We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Ellen G. White
#38. When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.
Will Ferrell
#39. The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky
#40. Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.
Steve Maraboli
#41. Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
David Mamet
#42. Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
Shannon L. Alder
#43. God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for us. He loves to give us the good gifts of His provision and grace that reveal to us His nature and His character.
John Paul Jackson
#44. To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
John Foster
#45. The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.
Anne Frank
#46. In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.
Mason Cooley
#47. Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately.
Kathryn Harrison
#49. To the question, "Why am I old?" the usual answer is, "Because I am becoming dead." But the facts show that I reveal more character as I age, not more death.
James Hillman
#50. The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of the usual conditions of their lives. That's when the truth of who they are is revealed ...
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.
Duane Michals
#52. Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes and tropes again, in this way, right now? I wonder what it will turn out to reveal about the economics and politics of this moment.)
Laura Mullen
#53. People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.
Jean De La Bruyere
#54. People reveal their true character when they're off center.
Ted Dekker
#55. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#56. I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.
Robert M. Hensel
#57. Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.
Ameen Rihani
#58. You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.
Nicky Gumbel
#59. Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order for "rational" is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression.
Herbert Marcuse
#60. Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.
Jim George
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