Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspiration Quotes, Character Quotes

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

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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

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A married philosopher is a comic character.

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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

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The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

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

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No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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