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Quote 3164
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3163
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3160
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3159
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3109
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3066
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within usShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3052
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficultiesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3046
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's selfShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3035
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3009
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3006
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religionby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2976
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercyShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2975
In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammerShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2953
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicityShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2926
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwardsby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2918
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2910
The discipline of desire is the background of character.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2907
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2884
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth muchShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2878
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorumShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2860
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resentsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2850
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2805
The vices of some men are magnificentby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2804
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strengthby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2780
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwardsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2778
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'by: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2777
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilisby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2773
This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a characterby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2758
Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousnessby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2751
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to othersby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2736
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom, one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wiseby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2734
Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2728
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2719
I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2708
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2699
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monkby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2673
A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2665
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2664
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule beginsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2661
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sownShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2636
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2621
My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of meby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2613
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2601
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of othersShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2552
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong thingsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2550
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinionsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2548
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of lifeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2546
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any starShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2543
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2489
Every man is a volume, if you know how to read himShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2476
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same lifeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2475
Conscience is an oracle of the divinityShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2466
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think noblyShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2454
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of lifeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2453
No one should part with their individuality and become that of anotherShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2445
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however greatShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2435
The great hope of society is in individual characterShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2432
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can doShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2430
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principleby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2413
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromisedby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2396
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soulby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2368
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silentShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2359
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived beforeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2348
Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beautyShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2347
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be withinShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2336
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the fatherShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2329
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thoughtShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2327
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2283
There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purestby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2279
The only fault's with time; all men become good creatures: but so slow!by: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2267
He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weakby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2265
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and trueby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2264
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth somethingby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2200
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonizationShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2196
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harmShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2195
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroicShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2192
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanityShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2191
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of goodShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2190
Human nature is above all things lazyShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2171
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2151
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himselfShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2149
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be boldShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2114
None but blockheads copy each otherby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2089
The weak in courage is strong in cunningby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2085
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrainedby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2071
I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in waterShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2066
There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards SatanShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2047
You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.by: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2006
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledgeby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1993
Our ideals are our better selvesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1955
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.by: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1945
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heartby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1933
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principleby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1804
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the worldby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1784
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this worldby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1776
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the falseby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1775
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beautyby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1769
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fallby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1764
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human natureby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1754
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperityby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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