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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
There are good characters and bad characters.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.
Whenever I have tried to make a character bad, they end up being good in some way.
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.
It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.
I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.
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