#character

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. ↗

— Janet Goodfriend

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On Writing About Nora Hawks I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

#female-characters #how-to-write #nora-hawks #on-writing #art

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#character #self-control #attitude

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination. ↗

— Sean Young

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The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ... ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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...My deepest personal reason for staying in Paris is that whatever I have as a character, good or bad, is based on the fact that since the age of four I have never run away from anything however painful or dangerous when I thought it was my duty to take a stand -- the American Ambassador to France upon being asked to evacuate Paris by the State Department on the eve of Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940 ↗

— William C. Bullitt

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True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. ↗

— David O. McKay

#education #ethics #mentoring #art

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #confidence #courage #individuality #inspiration

It is useless to give me compliments because I forget them minutes later! ↗

— Geetha Golla

#character #flattery #praise #attitude

You've got to breathe! And make the bridge between the top half of your body and the bottom. Between the woman in you who's sweet and tender, and the woman in you who's a bitch. ↗

— Katie Singer

#inspirational #strength-of-character #women #courage