Character Quotes - Page 10

• Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Honesty, Hate, Integrity

  Television broadcast, December 31, 1955.

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• On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

  Rumi

  Envy, Doe, Way

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• Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

  "In God's Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery". Book by Karen Casey, 1991.

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• All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Men, Higher

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• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Being Strong, Nature, Exercise

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Imagination, Independence, Individuality

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• With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Men, Race

  The Railroad Trainman, November 1909.

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• Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

  Rumi

  Envy, Defects

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• A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

  Roger Babson

  Success, Future, People

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• 'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

  George Eliot

  Destiny, Aphorism, Questionable

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 6 (1860)

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• A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stills, Spells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Native American, Speaks Out

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Friendship, Real Friends, Thinking

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• In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

  Roger Babson

  Analysis, Lasts, Depends

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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Sisterhood, Ornaments

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Known, Good Character

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.224

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• If you create a character, you create a destiny.

  Andre Maurois

  Inspirational, Destiny, Ifs

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• Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Two, Waiting, Lines

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• By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

  Jim Rohn

  Greatness, Self, Bridges

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• Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

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• A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Looks, Purpose, Way

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Hate, Presidential, Levels

  1950 'Declaration of Conscience' address to the Senate,1 Jun, denouncing accusations by Senator Joseph R McCarthy.

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• Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Patterns, Virtue

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.51, Mango Media Inc.

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• You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Food, Patriotic, Epic

  In New York Times 15 Jan. 1981

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• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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