Quotes with character…

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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • John S. Bonnell No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • William James No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Brad Stone No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Robert Wilson No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Hitopadesa No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Tacitus Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.''
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert E. Lee Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Henry Clay Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
    Henry Clay
    American lawyer, planter, and statesman (1777 - 1852)
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  • Cameron Diaz Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Marie Henri Beyle One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
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  • Brock Lesnar One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Brit Marling One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • C. L. R. James One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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