George W. Bush Quotes, Character Quotes, Government 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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Character Quotes

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Character Quotes

My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.

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Tags : Aeriel Miranda Quotes , Character Quotes , Style Quotes

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Character Quotes

There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.

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I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Character Quotes , Kids Quotes

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

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If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Character Quotes , Greatness Quotes

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead 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.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Character Quotes

Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Character Quotes

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Character Quotes

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Mind Quotes

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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Tags : Aaron Paul Quotes , Hero Quotes , Character Quotes

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

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