Character quotes

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” Warren Buffett

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” Ernest Hemingway

“In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.” Edward Hopper

“After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.” Edward Hopper

“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.” William James

“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.” William James

“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” William James

“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.” William James

“I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.” Kim Kardashian

“There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.” Kim Kardashian

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.” Immanuel Kant

“Character matters; leadership descends from character.” Rush Limbaugh

“The discipline of desire is the background of character.” John Locke

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.” John Locke

“Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.” Henry Miller

“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.” John Stuart Mill

“All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.” John Stuart Mill

“Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.” Dolly Parton

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?” Chuck Palahniuk

“I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.” Chuck Palahniuk

“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.” Thomas Paine

“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.” Thomas Paine

“What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?” Mitt Romney

“You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.” Ronald Reagan

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.” Ayn Rand

“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” Theodore Roosevelt

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!” Theodore Roosevelt

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.” Theodore Roosevelt