Browsing Quotes With Tag: character (187)
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Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when the two are compared.
Speaker: James Matthew BarriePosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In vain do they talk of happiness, who never suppressed an impulse for a principle.
Speaker: Marvin J. AshtonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Living a good life is like shaving – no matter how good you do it today you still have to do it again tomorrow.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People are like stained glass windows. They glow and sparkle when it is sunny and bright; but when the sun goes down their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the RingsPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You cannot run away from weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And, if that be so, why not now and where you stand?
Speaker: Robert Lewis StevensonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Speaker: Eleanor RooseveltPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation,
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Speaker: Thomas PainePosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!