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Character Quotes
"Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!"
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"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."
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"Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger."
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"A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him."
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"Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability."
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"What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance."
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"Likened to "still waters run deep, a dignified person is able to call upon their wisdom and experience to discern a situation and expertly navigate it with grace."
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"Stop looking for flaws, and kindness come much more easily."
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"We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party."
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"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
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"I shall never again admire a merely brave man."
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"Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."
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"Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye."
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"Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested."
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"He thought others were small, that was his greatness."
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"I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida."
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"Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy."
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"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."
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"Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions."
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"A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
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"The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable."
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"A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others."
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"A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance."
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"Character is the real you-"the you in you that makes you the you, you are. "the hidden man of the heart (1Peter 3:4)."
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"Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character."
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"The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost maidenlike, guest in a hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth. The man who combines both characters " the knight " is not a work of nature but of art; of that art which has human beings, instead of canvas or marble, for its medium."
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"Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist."
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"A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man."
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"He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood."
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"The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings."
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