“ We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ”
- Alphonse Karr- Copy
- 624
“ Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. ”
- Susanne K. Langer- Copy
- 428
“ Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character. ”
- Vince Gill- Copy
- 1.9K
“ We showed a lot of toughness and determination to come back from last night and not allow that to carry over. ”
- Steve Nash- Copy
- 1.2K
“ He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden. ”
- Plato- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. ”
- Johan Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ”
- Reinhold Niebuhr- Copy
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“ Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ”
- John Wooden- Copy
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“ All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 1.1K
“ All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 212
“ Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. ”
- V. S. Pritchett- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.8K
“ In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse. ”
- Cervantes- Copy
- 3.5K
“ We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 1.3K
“ We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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