Confucius Quotes, Archer Quotes, Character Quotes

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

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A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Failure Quotes , Character Quotes

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

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Man shows his character best in trifles.

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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

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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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Character Quotes , Differences Quotes

Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect resembles more or less its original in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , God Quotes , Character Quotes

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

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There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Character Quotes , Responsibility Quotes

One man in his time plays many parts.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Birthday Quotes , Character Quotes

The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

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

Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Character Quotes , Sage Quotes

Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Character Quotes

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Echoes 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