Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Moving Quotes, Character Quotes

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Strong Quotes , Character Quotes

The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Color Quotes

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

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

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Character Quotes , Littles Quotes

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Character Quotes , Italian Quotes

In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Names Quotes

When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Character Quotes , Succeed Quotes

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Ambition Quotes , Character Quotes

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Children Quotes , Character Quotes

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Character Quotes

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

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Tags : A. B. Simpson Quotes , Humble Quotes , Character Quotes

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Lying Quotes , Character Quotes

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

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

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Character Quotes , Should Quotes

I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

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Tags : Alan Redpath Quotes , Believe Quotes , Character Quotes

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes