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May you find great value in these Character quotes and sayings.
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Related topics: Values Honor Self
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
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.
- John Wooden
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Grit ruins clam chowder,
but enhances your character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
Character is always known.
Thefts never enrich;
alms never impoverish;
murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous
We make sacred pact. I promise teach
karate to you, you promise learn.
I say, you do, no questions.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
One strength of the communist system of the East
is that it has some of the character of a religion
and inspires the emotions of a religion.
- Albert Einstein
Sports teaches you character,
it teaches you to play by the rules.
Sports teaches you to know what
it feels like to win and lose,
it teaches you about life.
- Billie Jean King
Organic buildings are the strength
and lightness of the spiders' spinning,
buildings qualified by light,
bred by native character to environment,
married to the ground.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
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