Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Character Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

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He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

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The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

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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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Music is a defining element of character.

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... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

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To define is to limit.

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As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Character Quotes , Angel Quotes

In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Character Quotes , Russia Quotes

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Truth Quotes , Character Quotes