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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
Quote 2621
My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of meby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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
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
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
Quote 2265
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and trueby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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
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
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
Quote 2114
None but blockheads copy each otherby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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
Quote 2071
I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in waterShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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
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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Quote 1753
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardnessby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1751
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill actionby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1748
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovationsby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1733
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dullby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1724
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common senseby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1583
The less men think, the more they talk.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1580
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of themShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1572
There would be no great men if there were no little onesby: George HerbertShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1535
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1533
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1531
By indignities men come to dignitiesby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1502
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.by: EpiktetShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1498
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of menby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1484
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1353
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of successby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1323
The home is the chief school of human virtuesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1296
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.by: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1295
Humor is mankind's greatest blessingby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 1293
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the roadShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 1283
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principlesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1270
A good reputation is more valuable than moneyby: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1113
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wiselyShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1071
Character is powerShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 1070
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him powerby: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1063
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign powerby: Alfred TennysonShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 1055
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himselfShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of valueby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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