~ Character and Personality Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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