Characters Quotes - Page 5

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.

Meryl S. Kavanagh

When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.

It's not a romance, it's a love story.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

Auliq-Ice

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

Wallace Stegner

A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Great losses are great lessons.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

G.K. Chesterton

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