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Character and Personality QuotesFamous Character and Personality quotes by popular authors such as Jim Morrison, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Miguel de Cervantes, James A. Froude and others.
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[highlight-text]Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher
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[highlight-text]Personality too is destiny.
Erik H. Erikson
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[highlight-text]Good but not religious-good.
Thomas Hardy
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[highlight-text]I am my own heaven and hell!
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]To be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Deep down I'm really shallow.
Linda Merkin
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[highlight-text]Beware of the man of one book.
Isaac Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Where's your will to be weird?
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol
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[highlight-text]Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch
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[highlight-text]A wise and an understanding heart.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]O Douglas O Douglas! Tender and true.
Sir Richard Holland
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[highlight-text]He has not a single redeeming defect.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Character is perfectly educated will.
Novalis
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[highlight-text]My specialty is detached malevolence.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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[highlight-text]He was not of an age but for all time.
Ben Jonson
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[highlight-text]Human improvement is from within outward.
James A. Froude
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[highlight-text]And say to all the world 'This was a man!'
Julius Caesar
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[highlight-text]Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known.
Owen Meredith
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[highlight-text]Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]If I try to be like him who will be like me?
Yiddish Proverb
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[highlight-text]You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
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[highlight-text]I was born modest; not all over but in spots.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
Karl Menninger
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[highlight-text]I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead
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[highlight-text]Character is that which can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Character is simply habit long enough continued.
Plutarch
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[highlight-text]Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz
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[highlight-text]Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]The great hope of society is individual character.
William Ellery Channing
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[highlight-text]Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
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[highlight-text]He liked to like people therefore people liked him.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
Paul Brown
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[highlight-text]There are too many people, and too few human beings.
Robert Zend
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[highlight-text]Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
Paul Shepard
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[highlight-text]Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
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[highlight-text]What a man's mind can create man's character can control.
Thomas Edison
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[highlight-text]Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.
Robert Burton
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[highlight-text]In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
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[highlight-text]I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers.
Woody Allen
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[highlight-text]Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.
Mason Cooley
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[highlight-text]Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Honi soit qui mal y pense.)
Motto for the Order of the Garter
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[highlight-text]I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
Coco Chanel
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[highlight-text]A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Margaret Thatcher
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[highlight-text]A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
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[highlight-text]Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.
Cervantes
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[highlight-text]God loves us the way we are but too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford
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[highlight-text]Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor.
Alan Jay Lerner
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[highlight-text]When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
Ritchie Blackmore
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[highlight-text]I can't believe that out of 100 000 sperm you were the quickest.
Steven Pearl
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[highlight-text]Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Phaedrus
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[highlight-text]Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
Ovid
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[highlight-text]Too often when conscience tries to speak the line seems to be busy.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]When they came to shoe the horses the beetle stretched out his leg.
English Proverb
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[highlight-text]Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
Peggy Cahn
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[highlight-text]I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
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[highlight-text]Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.
Dwight L. Moody
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[highlight-text]He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Earl Wilson
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[highlight-text]Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]h and everything that's in it And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Rudyard Kipling
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[highlight-text]Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand
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[highlight-text]An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
Arab Proverb
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[highlight-text]The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Treat your friends as you do your pictures and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
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[highlight-text]His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Learn to say 'No'; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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[highlight-text]Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
H. G. Wells
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[highlight-text]Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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[highlight-text]To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire
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[highlight-text]You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
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[highlight-text]I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
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[highlight-text]Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
William Saroyan
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[highlight-text]Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
Louis Kronenberger
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[highlight-text]I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
Book of Common Prayer
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[highlight-text]Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus
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[highlight-text]The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.
William Ralph Inge
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[highlight-text]Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
Horace Mann
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[highlight-text]Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
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[highlight-text]A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends enemies and relatives say behind his back.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
John Bradshaw
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[highlight-text]Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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[highlight-text]One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin
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[highlight-text]Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr
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[highlight-text]The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.
Saki
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[highlight-text]In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
Ashley Montagu
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[highlight-text]If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.
Ezra Pound
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[highlight-text]Conscience is a treacherous thing and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.
Margaret Lane
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[highlight-text]When wealth is lost nothing is lost; When health is lost something is lost; When character is lost all is lost!
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands he is called dirty; if he does he is wasting the water.
African Proverb
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[highlight-text]Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock
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[highlight-text]As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.
Robert Whittington
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[highlight-text]Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.
Lady Constance Lytton
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[highlight-text]The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
Cesare Pavese
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[highlight-text]I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
William Butler Yeats
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[highlight-text]Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.
John Barth
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[highlight-text]The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]Be more concerned with your character than your reputation because your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
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[highlight-text]The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.
Walt Whitman
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[highlight-text]In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two where God has not.
Joaquin Miller
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[highlight-text]Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself anything goes.
Ayn Rand