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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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Life is unlimited.
Your world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
Money that is spent or given away returns multiplied.
The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
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
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.
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Grit ruins clam chowder,
but enhances your character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
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
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
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
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
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
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
Character is always known.
Thefts never enrich;
alms never impoverish;
murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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.
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
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
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
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next 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
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
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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