Browsing Quotes With Tag: character (173)
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.
Speaker: C. S. LewisSource: Mere ChristianityPosted: 22 Jul 2010 at 2:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else
Speaker: John BorroughsPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wiseSpeaker: Lao TzuPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them
Speaker: Cato the ElderPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own … You can’t clear your own fields while you’re counting the rocks on your neighbor’s farm
Speaker: CiceroPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own
Speaker: Bruce LeePosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 01 Jan 2010 at 1:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I always say, if you must go to the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. – Birgitte
Speaker: Robert JordanSource: the Fires of HeavenPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Speaker: Anthony RobbinsPosted: 20 Dec 2009 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To enlist. To slam the door impulsively on the past, to shed everything down to my last bit of clothing, to break the pattern of my life – that complex design I had been weaving since birth with all its dark threads, its unexplainable symbols set against a conventional background of domestic white and schoolboy blue, all those tangled strands which required the dexterity of a virtuoso to keep flowing – I yearned to take giant military shears to it, snap! bitten off in an instant, and nothing left in my hands but spools of khaki which could weave only a plain, flat, khaki design, however twisted they might be.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person “the world today” or “life” or “reality” he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
Speaker: John KnowlesSource: A Separate PeacePosted: 17 Dec 2009 at 4:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
Speaker: Audrey HepburnPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
Speaker: Henry Ward BeacherPosted: 04 Sep 2009 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Aug 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess. Murderers don’t believe that they’re to blame for what they do. Thieves, they think they deserve the money they take. Dictators, they believe they have the right – for the safety of their people and the good of the nation – to do whatever they wish.
Speaker: DenthSource: WarbreakerPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!