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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the… — Seneca the Younger
It's easier to make a good person better than to make a bad person good. — Michael Josephson
A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles. — Michael Josephson
A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight,… — Rollo May
I've got a feeling that, if it's so easy for you, the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a… — Charles Mingus
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before… — Thomas Carlyle
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. — Joe DiMaggio
Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself,… — Rajneesh
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot… — Henri Bergson
The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful… — Charles Darwin
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. — George Santayana
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day… — Mark Twain
I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant. — Karl Lagerfeld
When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and… — Miuccia Prada
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a… — Mary Quant
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods. — Thomas Boswell
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this… — Eileen Caddy
Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous.… — Napoleon Hill
I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully… — Eddie Rickenbacker
To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he… — B.F. Skinner

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