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Quote 3635
How I like to be liked, and what a dear curse is the inability to be popular!by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3630
The human species is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3627
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Showing Quotes on character
Quote 3626
The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.Showing Quotes on character
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Quote 3623
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.Showing Quotes on character
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Quote 3622
Character is what a man really is, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.Showing Quotes on character
Quote 3472
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core....by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3460
My heart is worth more than that of a vile mortal who dwells in your towns.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3453
I speak not in prejudice, nor am I averse from that sweet Sex, but naturally amorous of all that is beautiful.Showing Quotes on character
Quote 3450
I cannot fall out, or contemn a man for an errour, or conceive why a difference in Opinion should divide an affection.Showing Quotes on character
Quote 3447
In brief, I am averse from nothing: my conscience would give me the lie if I should absolutely detest or hate any essence but the devil; or so at least abhor anything, but that we might come to composition.Showing Quotes on character
Quote 3407
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3405
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3404
Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3401
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3400
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3354
The gentleman, then, is the man who is master of himself, who respects himself, and makes others respect him.Showing Quotes on character
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Quote 3346
He who violates another's honor loses his own.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3325
It was simply that she could not go away.Showing Quotes on character
Quote 3304
The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3295
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Showing Quotes on character
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Quote 3291
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.by: George EliotShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3290
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.by: George EliotShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3279
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.Showing Quotes on character
Quote 3253
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself,by: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on character
Quote 3246
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.Showing Quotes on character
Quote 3239
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on character
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 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 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 character
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Quote 3158
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 3121
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on 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 character
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Quote 3108
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 3054
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Showing Quotes on character
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 character
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Quote 3010
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mindby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on 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 character
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Quote 3008
You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on character
Quote 2976
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercyShowing Quotes on character
Quote 2975
In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammerShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2953
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicityShowing Quotes on 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 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 character
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Quote 2915
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish himby: John LockeShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2910
The discipline of desire is the background of character.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on character
Quote 2907
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2884
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth muchShowing Quotes on 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 character
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Quote 2860
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resentsShowing Quotes on character
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 character
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Quote 2825
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lendby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2805
The vices of some men are magnificentby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on character
Quote 2801
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogsShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2782
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vainby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on 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 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 character
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Quote 2772
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of womenby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2742
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishnessby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on 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 character
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Quote 2718
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbishby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2711
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2693
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you areShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2665
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.Showing Quotes on character
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Quote 2643
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.Showing Quotes on character
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Quote 2639
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we prayby: John KebleShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2621
My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of meby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on character
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 character
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Quote 2563
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravityShowing Quotes on character
Quote 2550
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinionsShowing Quotes on character
Quote 2546
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any starShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2512
The more refined one is, the more unhappyby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2488
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.Showing Quotes on 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 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 character
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Quote 2453
No one should part with their individuality and become that of anotherShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2452
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himselfShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2435
The great hope of society is in individual characterShowing Quotes on 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 character
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Quote 2417
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing elseby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on 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 character
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Quote 2347
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be withinShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2346
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are esteemableShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2336
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the fatherShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2329
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thoughtShowing Quotes on 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 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 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 character
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Quote 2265
It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and trueby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on character
Quote 2264
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth somethingby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on 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 character
Quote 2196
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harmShowing Quotes on 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 character
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Quote 2191
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of goodShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2190
Human nature is above all things lazyShowing Quotes on character
Quote 2187
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorruptShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2171
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!Showing Quotes on character
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Quote 2089
The weak in courage is strong in cunningby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on character
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Quote 2071
I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in waterShowing Quotes on character
Quote 2066
There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards SatanShowing Quotes on character
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