Author Topic: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~  (Read 10979 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #105 on: May 20, 2016, 09:56:49 PM »
[highlight-text]Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #106 on: May 20, 2016, 09:57:23 PM »
[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

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #107 on: May 20, 2016, 09:58:04 PM »
[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

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #108 on: May 20, 2016, 09:58:51 PM »
[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

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #109 on: May 20, 2016, 09:59:23 PM »
[highlight-text]Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #110 on: May 20, 2016, 10:00:22 PM »
[highlight-text]The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.

Saki

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #111 on: May 20, 2016, 10:01:03 PM »
[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

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #112 on: May 20, 2016, 10:01:46 PM »
[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

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #113 on: May 20, 2016, 10:02:22 PM »
[highlight-text]Conscience is a treacherous thing and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.

Margaret Lane

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #114 on: May 20, 2016, 10:03:16 PM »
[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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Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #115 on: May 20, 2016, 10:04:05 PM »
[highlight-text]To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #116 on: May 20, 2016, 10:04:40 PM »
[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

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #117 on: May 20, 2016, 10:05:13 PM »
[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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Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #118 on: May 20, 2016, 10:05:56 PM »
[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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Re: ~ Character and Personality Quotes ~
« Reply #119 on: May 20, 2016, 10:06:38 PM »
[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