Action Quote by Elizabeth Wordsworth

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

— Seneca the Younger

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his…

— Owen Feltham

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon…

— H. L. Mencken

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

— Anonymous

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

— Cesare Lombroso

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this…

— Arthur Helps

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him

— L Estrange

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies…

— Douglas Fairbanks

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics…

— Satchel Paige