Barack Obama Quotes, Art Quotes, Character Quotes

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Wall Quotes , Character Quotes

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

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Tags : Adelaide Kane Quotes , Hate Quotes , Character Quotes

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Voice Quotes

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Character Quotes , Division Of Labor Quotes

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Character Quotes , Habit Quotes

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Character Quotes

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

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

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , Hypocrisy Quotes

I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Memories Quotes , Character Quotes

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Character Quotes

I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Character Quotes , Fighting Quotes

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Character Quotes

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

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Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Character Quotes , Balance Quotes

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.

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Tags : Abigail Breslin Quotes , Fun Quotes , Character Quotes

Character is that which can do without success.

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