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0413dd8 Top 15 Things Money Can't Bu money time integrity character trust inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes happiness life love inspirational common-sense class manners inner-peace dignity health respect morals patience Roy T. Bennett
e7de926 In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you. men nature youth women character change empowerment love wisdom pleasing self-discovery truthfulness self-respect self-esteem Dorothy Parker
ae08e0c Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses being-positive character inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking strength optimism life inspirational blessings blessing reputation authentic-living weakness focus Roy T. Bennett
4b958d6 In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard. integrity character inspirational nobility Nicholas Sparks
ba2adb1 Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. perseverance courage character inspirational tenacity moral-courage Harper Lee
b41e64d Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. character inspirational advice-for-daily-living self-image John Wooden
f85cef3 I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. prejudice dream character inspirational race Martin Luther King Jr.
781e581 All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you. reading character impact characters ideas Diane Setterfield
81e5377 Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. character inspirational challenges adversity Lucius Annaeus Seneca
c0bf680 Talent is a gift, but character is a choice. character inspirational talent John C. Maxwell
27103e4 Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past. character inspirational personal-development Fred Rogers
14ddaa9 "Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues." character sadness music personal soul Nick Hornby
4502aac Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody. unsung-heroes courage goodness character inspirational moral-courage Justin Cronin
f94eb2c Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution. character maturity scars Erin McCarthy
f264ecc A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter. women beauty character inspirational Julie Garwood
19971f9 We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. mankind perfection humanity character falliability frailty flaws William Shakespeare
0e4534e I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead. character humor humor-inspirational Dennis Lehane
8c70b04 A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down. character descriptive Rudyard Kipling
7ae95b0 There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. character Jodi Picoult
ffeb29c He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't. bravery character life-lessons cowards Stephen King
9f189a6 Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character. resolve character death dissociation Gregory Maguire
b2acf9f A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me. prayer character god Anne Lamott
5385907 Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious. character life patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt teenager young Patricia Highsmith
6b584f8 Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. jealousy nature character change transformation Arthur Conan Doyle
aa15dca When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful. personality character skills Cornelia Funke
73fd47f Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked upon as himself. And all this terrible change has come about because he had ceased to believe himself and had taken to believing others. This he had done because it was too difficult to live believing one's self: believing one's self, one had to decide every question, not in favour of one's animal I, which was always seeking for easy gratification, but in almost every case against it. Believing others, there was nothing to decide; everything had been decided already, and always in favor of the animal I and against the spiritual. Nor was this all. Believing in his own self, he was always exposing himself to the censure of those around him; believing others, he had their approval. spirit character honesty reflection Leo Tolstoy
0621019 The bark on the tree was just a little softer. character friendship punishment Louis Sachar
4f7b7d9 Society is invincible--to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity--nothing that can stop you retreating into splendour and beauty--into the thoughts and beliefs that make the real life--the real you. integrity character life ideals society self mediocrity values E M Forster
02b1556 As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? writing character possibility Milan Kundera
f27775a If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable but not necessarily subordinate or inferior to practice, and if our democratic aspirations are defined in such realistic and defensible terms as to admit of excellence, all these supposed antagonisms lose their force. character intellectual intellectualism sentimentality intellectuals democracy Richard Hofstadter
ffd8a8c He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it. personality character Iain Pears
50a5d40 There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face. character Karen Joy Fowler
e10772f He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, those beautiful hands. looks personality character charismatic inner mappereance Anne Lamott
8da71fc There was a touch of prairie about the fellow. --hans vollman Yes. --roger bevins iii Like stepping into a summer barn late at night. --hans vollman Or a musty plains office, where some bright candle still burns. --roger bevins iii Vast. Windswept. New. Sad. --hans vollman Spacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious. --roger bevins iii Back slightly out. --hans vollman Right boot chafing. --roger bevins iii character presidents lincoln George Saunders
77c5881 A compliment about one's nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one's appearance doesn't mean overly much because there is no choice involved there. character life truth Julie Garwood
5bf8563 To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from the heart. [...] For anyone who had learned the social code, and Rastignac had absorbed it all in a flash, these words, that gesture, that look, that inflection in her voice, summed up all there was to know about the nature and the ways of men and women of her class. He was vividly aware of the iron hand underneath the velvet glove; the personality, and especially the self-centeredness, under the polished manners; the plain hard wood, under all the varnish. [...] Eugene had been entirely too quick to take this woman's word for her own kindness. Like all those who cannot help themselves, he had signed on the dotted line, accepting the delightful contract binding both benefactor and recipient, the very first clause of which makes clear that, as between noble souls, perfect equality must be forever maintained. Beneficience, which ties people together, is a heavenly passion, but a thoroughly misunderstood one, and quite as scarce as true love. Both stem from the lavish nature of great souls. personality kindness people character ties hypocrisy kind Honoré de Balzac
d7f3339 Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American. character warren-buffett capitalist business capitalism Roger Lowenstein
78050d5 He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character. character Christopher Paolini
39be2a2 And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Men are its philosophies. They lived, these Spaniards of the Golden Age; they felt and did; they did not think. Life was what they sought and found, life in its turmoil, its fervour and its variety. Passion was the seed that brought them forth and passion was the flower they bore. But passion alone cannot give rise to a great art. In the arts the Spaniards invented nothing. They did little in any of those they practised, but give a local colour to a virtuosity they borrowed from abroad. Their literature, as I have ventured to remark, was not of the highest rank; they were taught to paint by foreign masters, but, inapt pupils, gave birth to one painter only of the very first class; they owed their architecture to the Moors, the French and the Italians, and the works themselves produced were best when they departed least from their patterns. Their preeminence was great, but it lay in another direction: it was a preeminence of character. In this I think they have been surpassed by none and equalled only by the ancient Romans. It looks as though all the energy, all the originality, of this vigorous race had been disposed to one end and one end only, the creation of man. It is not in art that they excelled, they excelled in what is greater than art--in man. But it is thought that has the last word. literature character creation-of-man spaniards the-golden-age the-last-word art thought W. Somerset Maugham
d4e2efe The more important factors are a man's perseverance, his ability to innovate and think of new ideas, to be willing to adapt to changing conditions, to push almost tirelessly at a task or several at a time, during the difficult seasons as well as the prosperous. Certainly a man may be all these on his own, and succeed, wife or no - but to have a wife who possessed these qualities, who could bring out in her husband such steadiness and strength of character by her example and unyielding affection... The worth of such a wife is immeasurable. - James Laurence to his grandson, Laurie character spouse wife husband Trix Wilkins
e051000 The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly. character work industry class english Paul Theroux
513de6c Content is a great fortifier of good looks. character James Fenimore Cooper
5f2a930 The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances with contributed to the formation of character. The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities. Therefore it is well to know what were the chains of daily domestic habit which were the natural leading-strings of our forefathers before they learnt to go alone. history character historical circumstances forefathers generations habits mindsets traditions Elizabeth Gaskell
52d1719 Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character. courage faith character disbelief Michael Marshall Smith
36ca362 If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life. friends character death life foes honour enemies honor Jim Butcher
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