Browsing Quotes With Tag: character (187)
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 02 Jun 2019 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor.
Speaker: Pierre BordieuSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.
Speaker: the DudePosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Speaker: Bernard BaruchPosted: 28 Oct 2013 at 12:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never destroy any aspect of personality, for what you think is the wild branch may be the heart of the tree.
Speaker: Mrs. Henry GeorgePosted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good men must die, but death, cannot kill their names.
Speaker: ProverbPosted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow.
Speaker: Lynne V. CheneyPosted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What is past is prologue.
Posted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://zenhabits.net/new-habit/Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Help men know what is good in them—never what is bad.
Speaker: S. Michael WilcoxSource: ConfusesPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.
Speaker: C. S. LewisSource: Mere ChristianityPosted: 22 Jul 2010 at 2:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else
Speaker: John BorroughsPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wiseSpeaker: Lao TzuPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them
Speaker: Cato the ElderPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!