Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations.[C.S. Lewis] Quote: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.] Quote:Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.[Dave Barry] Quote:No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Drug testing is very big in football. This is because football players are Role Models for young people. All you young people out there want to grow up and have enormous necks and get knee operations as often as haircuts. That's why the people in charge of football don't want you to associate it with drugs. They want you to associate it with alcohol.[Dave Barry] Quote:I don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[Dave Barry] Quote:You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.[Michael Iapoce] Quote:I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.[George Washington] Quote:My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.[George Washington] Quote:What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.[Charles Dickens] Quote:Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith] Quote:A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.[Adam Smith] Quote:The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.[Abigail Van Buren] Quote:A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Arbitration is justice blended with charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Even the poor should give something to charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character![Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, givne style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. [Pliny the Younger] Quote:A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. [Jack London] Quote:It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. [Aeschylus] Quote:One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. [German Proverb] Quote:Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. [Sir Thomas Browne] Quote:Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. [Cicero] Quote:In charity there is no excess. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. [Aristophanes] Quote:Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity. [Jules Renard] Quote:If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. [Joseph Addison] Quote:It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. [Judith Martin] Quote:Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. [Albert Camus] Quote:You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. [Albert Camus] Quote:Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. [Confucius] Quote:Pride sullies the noblest character. [Claudianus] Quote:People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. [Aristotle] Quote:All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. [Lyndon B. Johnson] Quote:There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably diserable. [Mark Twain] Quote:No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. [Cicero] Definitions of: charDefinition: One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.Definition: Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. Definition: To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs. |
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