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Character Quotes by William James
- We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still…
- I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
- The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which…
- No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken…
- Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which…
- It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never…
- The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually…
- I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that…
- Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
- We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever…
- Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which…
More Character Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership. — John C. Maxwell
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. — Teresa of Avila