Charles Dickens Quotes, Determination 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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What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

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Tags : Akira Kurosawa Quotes , Character Quotes , Writing Quotes

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Character Quotes

Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Character Quotes

Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

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Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Pain Quotes , Character Quotes

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Character Quotes , Order Quotes

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Character Quotes , Thermometers Quotes

Men should be what they seem.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , True Friend Quotes , Character Quotes