Character development may refer to:
- Character arc, the change in characterization of a dynamic character, who changes over the course of a narrative.
- Character creation, especially for games
- Character advancement, increase in scores and other changes of a game character — for example, in role-playing video games
- Moral character, a term used in many educational systems to indicate a strategy for the maturation of individual students.
Famous quotes containing the words character and/or development:
“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... work is only part of a man’s life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)