Horace Quotes, Character Quotes, Lasts Quotes

Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

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Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Character Quotes , Greatness Quotes

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Character Quotes , Play Quotes

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

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

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Children Quotes , Character Quotes

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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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Brother Quotes , Character Quotes

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking 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

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Character Quotes

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Character Quotes , Envy Quotes

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

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

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Passion Quotes , Character Quotes

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

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Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Fun Quotes , Character Quotes

See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

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

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Civilization Quotes

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Character Quotes , Firsts Quotes

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Heart Quotes , Character Quotes