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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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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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Character Quotes , Greatness Quotes

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Believe Quotes , Character Quotes

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

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

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

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

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

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

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Character Quotes , Hands Quotes

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , Past 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

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

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Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Believe Quotes , Character Quotes

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

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Character Quotes , Lasts Quotes

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

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

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , Hypocrisy Quotes

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Character Quotes , Writing Quotes

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

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Tags : Al Hirschfeld Quotes , Moving Quotes , Character Quotes

One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Character Quotes , Men 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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Tags : Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes