Anne Frank Quotes, Lying Quotes, Character Quotes

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

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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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Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

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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

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

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Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

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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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The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

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The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

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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

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

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Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.

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We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

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She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Character Quotes