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o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
Character is higher than intellect.[…] A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
Quote by -Paulo Coelho
“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Quote by -Heraclitus
“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
“Great character is not developed through ease and convenience but through doing NOW what needs to be done no matter how difficult it”
Quote by -Joyce Meyer
Character is to the soul what outward appearances is to the body. A man’s genuineness and refinement should not reveal themselves directly; they should express themselves only indirectly as an effect from within.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
If you have the character to hang in there when it’s tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.
Quote by -Zig Ziglar
Is a world without shameless people possible? No. So this person you’ve just met is one of them. Get over it.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
The operations of the will are in our power; not in our power are the body, the body’s parts, property, parents, siblings, children, country or friends.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Stick with the situation at hand, and ask, “Why is this so unbearable? Why can’t I endure it?” You’ll be embarrassed to answer.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
True good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, good actions.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
I see no virtue that is opposed to justice; but I see a virtue that is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Settle on the type of person you want to be and stick to it, whether alone or in company.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
It will even do to socialize with men of good character, in order to model your life on theirs, whether you choose someone living or someone from the past.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Remember, too, on every occasion that leads you to vexation to apply this principle: not that this is a misfortune, but that to bear it nobly is good fortune.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
If you want to be a man of honour and a man of your word, who is going to stop you? You say you don’t want to be obstructed or forced to do something against your will – well, who is going to force you to desire things that you don’t approve, or dislike something against your better judgement?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God’s sake, don’t sell it cheap.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Compassion. Unwavering adherence to decisions, once he’d reached them. Indifference to superficial honors. Hard work. Persistence.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
They saw him for what he was: a man tested by life, accomplished, unswayed by flattery, qualified to govern both himself and them.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
That he respected tradition without needing to constantly congratulate himself for safeguarding our traditional values.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
To be the same in all circumstances – intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexility.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Do not let your thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles that you may expect to befall you: but on every occasion ask yourself, “What is there in this that is intolerable and past bearing?” For you will be ashamed to confess.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Let it make no difference to you whether you are cold or warm, if you are doing your duty; and whether you are drowsy or satisfied with sleep; and whether ill-spoken of or praised; and whether dying or doing something else.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Remember this, that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
“Whenever I do anything, even the most simple character, I need to twist it somehow, make it more challenging, in terms of psychology and storytelling. I can’t just do it straight.”
Quote by -Ulrich Thomsen
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Quote by -Henry James
She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.
Quote by -Henry James
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
Quote by -Henry James
Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
Quote by -Henry James
Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.
Quote by -Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
Quote by -Henry James
"The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds."
Quote by -Robert Greene