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Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Talent will take you miles; character will take you around the world.

Talking to Robespierre, one tried to make the right noises; but what is right, these days? Address yourself to the militant, and you find a pacifist giving you a reproachful look. Address yourself to the idealist, and you’ll find that you’ve fallen into the company of a cheerful, breezy professional politician. Address yourself to means, and you’ll be told to think of ends: to ends, and you’ll be told to think of means. Make an assumption, and you will find it overturned; offer yesterday’s conviction, and today you’ll find it shredded. What did Mirabeau complain of? He believes everything he says. Presumably there was some layer of Robespierre, some deep stratum, where all the contradictions were resolved.

That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.

That's the Marshall men - they don't know the word for slow down, be careful, stop and think ... you know, prudence.

That wasn't love; that was stupidity.

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life: 1. Leadership without character. 2. Followership without servant-being. 3. Brotherhood without integrity. 4. Affluence without wisdom. 5. Authority without conscience. 6. Relationship without faithfullness. 7. Festivals without peace. 8. Repeated failure without change. 9. Good wealth without good health. 10. Love without a lover.

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

The alliance of character and rationality is a serious question. The alliance involves both agents. The character is needed because logic will give you the structure, but will never tell you what should be inserted in it. The character is necessary because logic will tell you what is missing, but will not add anything new. The character is needed because logic will show you the optimal process of making things done without ever introducing how to make things done better. Logic will criticise everything, but never create anything. Logic alone is the tool to judge, plan or think, but it is invisible. Logic cares about your sentiments as the fork cares about your taste.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

The Angel’s glow dimmed as she went on, "We gave our responsibilities over to cold, careless objects of power that would stabilize the Universe infinitely without bias. Eventually, beyond any foresight, they required hosts to channel their immense power. These hosts were known as the Ten Lords. “Soon the Lords too abandoned their posts or turned to wicked intent. You see, our hearts tend toward darkness; yet even one of light, can turn the tide of this war." She looked at Slae, and said, "This is you." Slae turned away from the Angel, but she only went on saying, "For this reason we are here: The Shadow, creepeth from the Nether Regions of space with one purpose – to devour everything. None will survive. Yet, for the first time in thousands of years, it stopped upon a blue speck in space. Do you know why? I doubt you could, since I cannot even fathom why.

The answer to bad circumstances is good character.

The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes. Guess what for toxic friends...!

The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.

The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

The boundaries of this world are forever shifting – from day to night, joy to sorrow, love to hate, and from life itself to death; and who can say at what moment we may suddenly cross over the border, from one state of existence to another, like heat applied to some flammable substance? I have been given my own ever-changing margins, across which I move, continually and hungrily, like a migrating animal. Now civilized, now untamed; now responsive to decency and human concern, now viciously attuned to the darkest of desires.

The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was the wretch that first began and carried on wars on the score or on the pretence of religion; and under that mask, or that infatuation, committed the most unexampled atrocities that are to be found in the history of any nation. Of which I will state only one instance: When the Jewish army returned from one of their plundering and murdering excursions, the account goes on as follows (Numbers xxxi. 13): 'And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp; and Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle; and Moses said unto them, 'Have ye saved all the women alive?' behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore, 'kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all the women- children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for Yourselves.' Among the detestable villains that in any period of the world have disgraced the name of man, it is impossible to find a greater than Moses, if this account be true. Here is an order to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers, and debauch the daughters. Let any mother put herself in the situation of those mothers, one child murdered, another destined to violation, and herself in the hands of an executioner: let any daughter put herself in the situation of those daughters, destined as a prey to the murderers of a mother and a brother, and what will be their feelings? In short, the matters contained in this chapter, as well as in many other parts of the Bible, are too horrid for humanity to read, or for decency to hear.

The character was created by you, if you kill yourself you kill the character, it happen because you done it... you don't realise it!

The character of Jesus is the character of God. God would never do something Jesus would find morally reprehensible, so if you can’t find it in Jesus, then you really ought to think twice before you claim you’ve found it in God.

The Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving. Be aware!!

The character of a man is established by his habits; he is the only one who has the power to change his own habits, the power alone will not change him.

The character of someone shouldn't be measured based on what they eat, drink or the way they dress. Character that commands following is more than demonstrating some 'nice', 'cute', 'appealing' behaviors. It is deeper than that!

The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace.

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

The Christian Journey is not just to a place "Heaven", it is also to a person "Jesus". Ephesians 4:13 says "Till we all come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ

The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed." "That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.

The content in heavenly order will manifest only when reflected

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters!

The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

The disappointments, the injustices, and the unfair treatment of others can never make me become a bitter person, far from it. It rather makes me become more and more generous and compassionate. Because down in my heart, am very much at peace with myself.

The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relation between brain and mind. Diseases of the brain are seen as tragedies visited on people who cannot be blamed for their condition, while diseases of the mind, especially those that affect conduct and emotion, are seen as social inconveniences for which sufferers have much to answer. Individuals are to be blamed for their character flaws, defective emotional modulation, and so on; lack of willpower is supposed to be the primary problem.

The dreams of others must not be the hurdle for your's, but the pain of others must be the part of your version of dream, in the way that you could feel the satisfaction because you know deep in your heart that they deserve to be helped because they are in pain for true participation and for the improvement of many lives, The dream must have this essential trait of improving your character by lifting up the moral values of the society. In this packet of time and space, everyone has limited time with unlimited desires which creates bigger aspects, which makes us all different to have a vision to accomplish, here comes the difference that some move on this track selfishly and create hurdles for many other dreamers by participating in the destructive aspect of the universe and some are totally different they participate in constructive aspect by helping others by providing them proper source to keep them moving towards their visions, hence you win not just your own winnings but many others, you live not just your own life but many other lives, you taste the success of eternity on this planet, you feel a great joy in your life.

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline.

The greater the character the greater the individual.

The fact that God can bring character development and personal growth out of any situation is conditional on people's willingness to submit to God's will. God is sovereign over every life, but those who yield their will to him will be shaped according to his purposes. When God directs a life for his purposes, all of life is a school. No experience, good or bad, is ever wasted (Rom. 8:28). God doesn't squander people's time. He doesn't ignore their pain. He brings not only healing but growth out of even the worst experiences. Every relationship can be God's instrument to mature a person's character.

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think!

The gap between intentions and actions is character.

The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are.

The good ones put your character to the flame and burn away all the rest of the shit until you come out a better you.

The greater your character the greater your destiny.

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond.

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.

The guilt helped him instinctively understand what he would consciously later learn, that a man’s character is determined by how he chooses to wield the power he has over others.