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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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