Quotes by character

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Oswald Chambers
Scottish preacher, writer 1874-1917

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Horace Greeley
American editor 1811-1872

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Bayard Taylor
American poet, travel author, and diplomat 1825-1878

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Robert Burns
Scottish Poet 1759-1796

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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Lydia M. Child
American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor 1802-1880

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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Billy Zane

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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
Baruch Spinoza
Dutch Philosopher and Theologian 1632-1677

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
Source: Tractatus Politicus
Samuel Johnson
English writer 1709-1784

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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Abraham Lincoln
American statesman 1809-1865

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If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Henry David Thoreau
American writer 1817-1862

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Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
John Wooden
American basketball player and head coach 1910-2010

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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
John Locke
English philosopher 1632-1704

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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Lyman Abbott
American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. 1835-1922

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The highest qualities of character… must be earned.
Bruce Lipton
American developmental biologist 1944-

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There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
Barbara Windsor
English actress 1937-

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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.