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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life — Joseph Campbell

I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty. — Brent Spiner

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate. — Paul Eldridge

When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right. — Madeleine L'Engle

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path. — Charlene Costanzo

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it. — Madame De Stael

My life is moving forward in a weird empty narrative, missing one key character, whose current life is a continuous loop. — Jodi Picoult

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. — Brian Tracy

I like exploring, especially being and getting more comfortable with a character and in the space a character is always in. — Emily Bett Rickards

He is the God of all, and His concern is for all. — John Willis Zumwalt

It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message. — Henry Drummond

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore

I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found. — William James Moore

What makes Johnny Depp so brilliant is you truly have no idea what kind of character he's going to play next. — Alexa Vega

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me. — April Parker Jones

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. — Jan Karon

When you come to a new country with so little, all you have is your character. — Zack Love

Character is,for the most part simply habit become fixed. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work. — Julian Jarrold

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder. — Joan Van Ark

For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny - but how we relate to what happens. — Lama Surya Das

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing. — Al Pacino

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for. — Sebastian Horsley

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. — Gail Carson Levine

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me. — Francine Rivers

The whole point of taking a job is that you connect with a character or with an issue. — Michelle Fairley

Skills can be trained, character is inbred. — Jeffrey Fry

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete. — Jane Austen

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season — John Terry

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. — St. Jerome

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job. — Carey Mulligan

Every story is a scorcher and has the ultimate alpha-male character. - AngelinaT — Scarlett Avery

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. — Graham Collier

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes. — Dan Groat

When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way. — William James Moore

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. — Rumi

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41) — Edward Abbey

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown

so powerful is the influence of a truly great character on all that surrounds it. — Alexandre Dumas

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!! — Karl Ludwig Von Knebel

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. — Oscar Levant

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters. — Kevin J. Anderson

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character. — Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right. — Matthew Kelly

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without. — Sri Chinmoy

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues. — Ezra Taft Benson

I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character. — Betty White

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event. — Erich Fromm

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type. — Dean Cain

Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust. — Norman Lock

I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. — Donald Creighton

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements. — Masi Oka

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven
by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character. — Zoe Saldana

Clothing is the first step to building a character. — Sylvester Stallone

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. — Oswald Chambers

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. — Evan Esar

Your character is the harvest of your habits. — Adrian Rogers

It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self. — Atticus Shaffer

I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes. — Luke Taylor

Fear is in the waiting, not the fighting." -- Snake (character in Slitherskins, scheduled for release in summer, 2014) — Martha Gilstrap

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. — Henry Clay

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. — Raheel Farooq

It is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character. — Michael Connelly

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. — James Monroe

The power of a woman is in her beauty. Show it off every time you have the chance — Bangambiki Habyarimana

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. — Phyllis Bottome

Night fishing accentuates the atmosphere of a lake. It is as if, once darkness falls, the character of the pool announces, "I am here. — Fennel Hudson

Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative. — Matt Chandler

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character. — Kelli O'Hara

Remember, passing judgment on someone else's character, is only a reflection of your own. — Demi Lovato

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master. — Richard G. Scott

The best way to determine a person's character is to judge them when their world is falling apart. — Kilroy J. Oldster

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened. — John C. Maxwell

A character is what he does. — Donald Miller

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character. — Saru Singhal

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you. — James Cromwell

Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man. — Robin M. Bertram

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits. — Rick Warren

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — Calvin Coolidge

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home. — Frances Moore Lappe

I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it. — Charles Spurgeon

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow. — Abraham Lincoln

Each character created by Stephen King is a proffesor... a guy full of knowledge. — Deyth Banger

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-coloured glasses of ignorance! — Dr Steven Bottomley

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence. — Steve Largent

There is no difference between Ripley from Alien and any Katherine Heigl character. — Mindy Kaling

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values. — Susan Estrich

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page. — Morgan Freeman