Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Taken Quotes, Character Quotes

Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Character Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.

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It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.

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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

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

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Character Quotes , Parent 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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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

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Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

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

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

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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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Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

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

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

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