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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything. Mark Twain
But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we long to practise and exercise. We are content to receive the former from others, the latter we wish others to experience from us. Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practice, and influences the... Plutarch
Poorly written novels -- no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters -- are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. Flannery O'Connor
Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon. Fay Weldon
Anthony Bourdain quote: "Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't..."
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. Anthony Bourdain
Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare. Henry James
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in..."
He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman. Arthur Conan Doyle
Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are recorded in biography. Even the humblest person, who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country; for his life and character pass unconsciously into the lives of others, and propagate good example for all... Samuel Smiles
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand—and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? Washington Irving
Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in... Mindy Kaling
Heraclitus quote: "Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate."
Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate. Heraclitus
May I ask you what these questions tend?''Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.''And what is your success?'She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly. Jane Austen
Jane Austen quote: "Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's..."
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. Jane Austen
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse. Arthur Miller
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin. Ann Patchett

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