Aristotle Quotes, Character Quotes, Purpose Quotes

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

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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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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

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Tags : Aaron Sorkin Quotes , Wall Quotes , Character Quotes

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Wind Quotes

Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.

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Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

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Tags : Adam Johnson Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

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Tags : Adhir Kalyan Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Character Quotes

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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

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

When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you're waiting and waiting and waiting, once you're actually on set engaging in the scene with another actor, time is of the essence.

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Tags : Aja Naomi King Quotes , Character Quotes , Essence Quotes

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Character Quotes , Perception Quotes

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Character Quotes , Years Quotes

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Character Quotes , Renegades 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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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

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Tags : Abigail Breslin Quotes , Fun Quotes , Character Quotes

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Character Quotes , Home Quotes

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Humble Quotes , Character Quotes