Personality Quotes

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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he… — Maria Montessori
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many… — Joseph Addison
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. — Alfred North Whitehead
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows. — Thorstein Veblen
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a… — Stendhal
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. — Walter Lippmann
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their… — Marcel Proust
There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold. — William Shakespeare
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once… — Elizabeth Taylor
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies. — William Hazlitt
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of… — W. Somerset Maugham

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