"A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him."

-- Thomas More

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Faces Quotes

“You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.”
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”
“What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.304, Penguin
“I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: And Other Poems”, p.195
“Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.”
“Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!”

Source : Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.98, Applewood Books
“For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.”
“That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.”

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