Character Development Quotes

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“A relationship built on lies and trickery will not last; only truthfulness can uphold a relationship”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“We become the books we read.”
― Matthew Kelly

“There will be times in your life that you will be challenged to choose between honor and something else. I am asking that you not sacrifice your honor for the sake of acquiring easy things.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”
― Germany Kent

“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Your friends and I want you to stay aware of your surroundings, James Ed. These days you cannot anticipate what a disgruntled, former employee might do.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

“It's never too late to change what you are, it took me a long time to figure that out.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Your reputation is what others think of you; your character is what you truly are. Reputations can be manipulated; character can only be developed and maintained.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man

“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.”
― John Yorke, Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story

“From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As for drevalyankas, pikshas, bolugs and other totally original creatures, they appeared there somehow by themselves in the course of events, and then just began "to get under the feet of the main heroes"...”
― Irina Lopatina

“Yes, I see,’ said Frodo. ‘For one thing, I see that you’re behind the times and the news here. Much has happened since you left the South. Your day is over, and all other ruffians’. The Dark Tower has fallen, and there is a King in Gondor. And Isengard has been destroyed, and your precious master is a beggar in the wilderness. I passed him on the road. The King’s messengers will ride up the Greenway now not bullies from Isengard.’

The man stared at him and smiled. ‘A beggar in the wilderness!’ he mocked. ‘Oh, is he indeed? Swagger it, swagger it, my little cock-a-whoop. But that won’t stop us living in this fat little country where you have lazed long enough. And’ - he snapped his fingers in Frodo’s face - ‘King’s messengers! That for them! When I see one, I’ll take notice, perhaps.’

This was too much for Pippin. His thoughts went back to the Field of Cormallen, and here was a squint-eyed rascal calling the Ring-bearer ‘little cock-a-whoop’. He cast back his cloak, flashed out his sword, and the silver and sable of Gondor gleamed on him as he rode forward.

‘I am a messenger of the King,’ he said. ‘You are speaking to the King’s friend, and one of the most renowned in all the lands of the West. You are a ruffian and a fool. Down on your knees in the road and ask pardon, or I will set this troll’s bane in you!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“As your friend, allow me to make a prediction. Sooner or later, you're gonna change. Actually, you already are. All that's left is for you to take that first step.”
― Saekisan

“It was very nearly too much, but Astrid could handle too much. She could handle anything. She had to.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail

“Empathy isn’t just a byproduct of evolution; it’s humanity’s superpower. It enables us to form cohesive groups, collaborating in ways that make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Without empathy and mutual understanding, civilizations as we know them wouldn’t exist.”
― Will Raywood, Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career

“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.”
― Will Raywood, Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career

“In general, the best antagonists in fiction represent the protagonist’s Shadow. By confronting and ultimately defeating the antagonist, the hero reintegrates these disparate aspects of the self and becomes whole.”
― Will Raywood, The Natural Laws of Story: Master the Art and Science of Engaging Narratives

“The difference between those who succeed and those who don’t is persistence.”
― Glody Kikonga, MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Unbreakable Mind

“The secret to success is simple: Never quit.”
― Glody Kikonga, MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Unbreakable Mind

“He wasn’t lonely. He wasn’t in despair. No, this feeling was different. Raw. It crept through him, quiet and relentless, until the truth finally surfaced. He was sad.”
― Dane Stewart, SkyWorld: The Fall Is Coming

“As your friend, allow me to make a prediction. Sooner or later, you're gonna change. Actually, you already are. All that's left for you is to take that first step.”
― Saekisan

“I had tried to become the sun—to swallow my enemies whole in searing light—but instead, I had become a spark, snuffed out by a wind I could not overcome.”
― HP Nero, Kingdom of the Sun

“I clung to that look. That fleeting look, that fragile thread of love that wove itself in his brightly colored irises.”
― HP Nero, Kingdom of the Sun

“My newfound heart that was bleeding with desperation, with
rage, with anguish.”
― HP Nero, Kingdom of the Sun

“I wanted his words, his admission, his guilt laid bare before me.
I wouldn’t ask, though, He would need to offer it to me.
I needed his confession.”
― HP Nero, Kingdom of the Sun

“If I've learned anything new, it would be understanding a character's emotions-why they fall for someone, what makes them feel attracted to each other.”
― Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai