Quotes: character
Quotes 76 till 90 of 329.
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Aesop
Greek fabulist and story teller
620-564 BCE
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
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Hosea Ballou
American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''
1771-1852
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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Stevie Wonder
American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
1950-
Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Bayard Taylor
American poet, travel author, and diplomat
1825-1878
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
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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.
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Lord Chesterfield
English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope)
1694-1773
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
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Marquis de Sade
French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer
1740-1814
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
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Good character is like a rubber ball - thrown down hard - it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball - thrown for gain - shattered and cracked.
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