Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

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To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

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The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

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The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

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

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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

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It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

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

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

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You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

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"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

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Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

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What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

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