The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

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Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

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Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. ― Ronald Reagan

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If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

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Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

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We often fully sense and relish the radiance of happiness only after it is has escaped through the backstage door, stealthily and silently. ("Happy days are back again") ― Erik Pevernagie

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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