Character Defining Quotes

“I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City

“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.”
― Robert E. Howard, The Complete Chronicles of Conan

“Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.”
― Dr. Henry Cloud

“At the age when we are all of us most apt to take our colouring, in the form of a reflection from the colouring of other people, he had been sent abroad, and had been passed on from one nation to another, before there was time for any one colouring more than another to settle itself on him firmly. As a consequence of this, he had come back with so many different sides to his character, all more or less jarring with each other, that he seemed to pass his life in a state of perpetual contradiction with himself. He could be a busy man, and a lazy man; cloudy in the head, and clear in the head; a model of determination, and a spectacle of helplessness, all together. He had his French side, and his German side, and his Italian side--the original English foundation showing through, every now and then, as much as to say, "Here I am, sorely transmogrified, as you see, but there's something of me left at the bottom of him still.”
― William Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

“Though not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown.”
― Thomas Hardy

“Character is what we do when no one else is watching"

~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

“How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.”
― Hyrum W. Smith, The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?

“Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

“The character of Jesus can only be ultimately known experientially through the indwelling of His Spirit in union with us."


~"The character of Jesus can only be ultimately known experientially through the indwelling of His Spirit in union with us."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

“Did you deem yourself strong because you were able to twist the heads off civilised folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong.”
― Robert E. Howard, Man-Eaters of Zamboula

“He had thought himself a master of discipline, but now, he felt like a man staring at the edge of a cliff, realizing he had never learned how to fall.”
― S.X. Cummings, Kismet's Gate: The Scarred and the Chosen