Characteristics Quote by Helen Rowland

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily…

— Thomas de Quincey

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing…

— Aldous Huxley

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless…

— Samuel Johnson

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself…

— Ernest Becker

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart,…

— James Allen

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Anyone who does not share his moments of joy and discouragement with others will never fully know his own qualities and his own defects”

— Paulo Coelho