Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

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I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's doing, it affects yours.

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I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

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The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

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But rules cannot substitute for character.

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We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

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Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

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It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

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