African Spir Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.

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So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Long Quotes

... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Meditation Quotes

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Character Quotes , Envy Quotes

Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Character Quotes , Matter Quotes

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Character Quotes

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Character Quotes , Trying Quotes

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Character Quotes

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Character Quotes , Government Quotes

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Food Quotes , Character Quotes

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Two Quotes

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Archer Quotes , Character Quotes

What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Character Quotes

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Character Quotes , Littles Quotes

For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

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Tags : Adam Croasdell Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes