Character Quotes - Page 2

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.

Times will change for the better when you change.

Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You’re giving a gift. You’re helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They’ll become real.

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

Take good care of your final word. If your final say will hunt you in day's ahead, then hold back the words, and let silence speak.

People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it on the radio, read or watch it on the internet, hear about it at work etc. Then immoral acts are tuned to a deaf ear. Then no one wants to take action or speak up for what's right. Break the cycle and have moral character.

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

Be a Person. Not a Resumé.

Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be drawn into that current, and that which at first was but a tiny rivulet, will thus be swelled into a mighty, majestic stream.

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

You are here to make a difference, to either improve the world or worsen it. And whether or not you consciously choose to, you will accomplish one or the other.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.