Charles Dickens Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

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The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

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Man shows his character best in trifles.

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When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.

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There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Strong Quotes , Character 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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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

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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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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

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An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

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My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

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What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

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The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

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In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

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