Confucius Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

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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

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

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

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

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

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , True Friend Quotes , Character Quotes

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

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Tags : A. B. Simpson Quotes , Humble Quotes , Character Quotes

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Character Quotes , Giving Quotes

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

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Character Quotes , Responsibility Quotes

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Character Quotes

I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film.... The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film.

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