Human Character Quotes
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Human Character Quotes & Sayings
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I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
— Shirley Maclaine
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
— Tennessee Williams
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
— Matthew Simpson
Call me a Freak all u want really...
I honestly take it as a compliment everytime. No matter how it was intended. — Daleen Van Tonder
I honestly take it as a compliment everytime. No matter how it was intended. — Daleen Van Tonder
Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.
— John N. Gray
Pain defines moments in the lives of all human beings. The trial is not the endurance of pain but the choices we make regarding how to endure.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
— Georges Rouault
I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.
— Ayana Mathis
One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
I accept my body and its defects.
I accept my character
and its weaknesses.
I love myself as a perfect part
of a perfect Whole. — Human Angels
I accept my character
and its weaknesses.
I love myself as a perfect part
of a perfect Whole. — Human Angels
Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.
— John Adams
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
— Paulo Freire
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
— Mercy Otis Warren
What is a human mind? Memories. Memories are data. Character, personality, individual volition. Those are programming.
— George R R Martin
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
— Charlotte Bronte
What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.
— Nicole Holofcener
I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.
— Andy Serkis
No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.
— Alexander Hamilton
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
— Wilhelm Reich
It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.
— Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
— Graham Greene
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
— Jacki Weaver
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
— Henry David Thoreau
They've turned this character into a human being.
— Melinda Clarke
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.
— Christopher Reeve
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
— Daniel Berrigan
it's human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it's due to defects in someone else's department, knowledge, or character,
— Eric Ries
I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.
— Forest Whitaker
know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.
— Andrew Murray
Let us respect the unique character and the personal world of each and every human being
— Masami Saionji
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
— James Thurber
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.
— Theodore Roosevelt
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
— Julia Alvarez
Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.
— Shoghi Effendi
Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
On or about December 1910, human character changed.
— Virginia Woolf
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.
— Robert Henri
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
— Virginia Woolf
Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature ... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
— Ellen Glasgow
One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.
— Dianna Hardy
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
— Aristotle.
You've got to understand what makes the character human.
— Marcia Gay Harden
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.
— David Henry Hwang
How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Hating a main character for being too weak is like expecting a human to be able to do everything. Stories aren't all sunshine and rainbows.
— B.A. Gabrielle
That's it. Love makes us all strong.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.
— Saul Bellow
I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter
— Virginia Woolf
Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.
— Allen Lacy
Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.
— Tom Ellis
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Worship is at once the overall character of the renovated thought life and the only safe place for a human being to stand.
— Dallas Willard
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
— James Madison
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
— R.J. Palacio
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
— Yasuhiro Konishi
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
— Alexander Hamilton
The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.
— Constantin Stanislavski
Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important.
— Debasish Mridha
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.
— Suzy Kassem
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.
— Tracy Morgan
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.
— Daya Kudari
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
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
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
Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
— Orson Scott Card
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Character is the bedrock of every human adventure.
— Moagi Keretetse
As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit
— Yamaoka Tesshu
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature ... it is more than impersonation.
— Leon Surmelian
I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.
— Douglas Bader
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A person's words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.
— Anuj
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
— Arthur Miller
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.
— Nancy Kress
We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
— E.L. Doctorow
Revelation addresses many issues that have not changed because human nature and God's character have remained constant. It
— Craig S. Keener
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
— Ambrose Bierce
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
— Alfred De Vigny
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
— David Corbett
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
— Robert Duvall