Browsing Quotes With Tag: character (187)
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When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men’s natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Speaker: Katharine HepburnPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Very often, the only person who will give you a chance will be yourself. Too many people want the status quo to remain the same, and that status quo will include you… None of us should willingly join the lowest common denominator, which in many cases turns out to be the easy road. Those with uncommon lives have moved beyond the common.
Speaker: Donald TrumpSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Many think of capitalists as pigs. And many are greedy pigs. Yet there are capitalists who do a lot of good, such as provide health care, food, transportation, energy, and communications to the world. As a capitalist who does my best to make the world a better place, my problem is with people who want to be paid for doing nothing or paid more to do less. In my opinion, a person who wants to be paid more and do less, or nothing, is also a greedy pig.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Many think of capitalists as pigs. And many are greedy pigs. Yet there are capitalists who do a lot of good, such as provide health care, food, transportation, energy, and communications to the world. As a capitalist who does my best to make the world a better place, my problem is with people who want to be paid for doing nothing or paid more to do less. In my opinion, a person who wants to be paid more and do less, or nothing, is also a greedy pig.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Speaker: Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 10:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A wrongdoer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 12:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
Speaker: James AllenPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 12:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In the armory of thought [man] forges the weapons by which he destroys himself.
Speaker: James AllenPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 12:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is the very perfection of man, to find out his own imperfection.
Speaker: AugustineSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.
Speaker: Paul FusselSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
Speaker: Viktor FranklSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Speaker: Herbert Bayard SwopeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?’
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this? If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth, even as water seeks its level? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Willpower is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!