Character Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings”

— Chuck Palahniuk

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

— Abraham Myerson

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

— Brandon Sanderson

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying historturer but not of keeping his temper.

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for…

— Charles Dickens

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong…

— Ramana Maharshi

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform…

— Aristotle

“The relatives of a great man often fail to see his achievements as clearly as they see his everyday failures, flaws, hypocrisy, pettiness, selfishness.”

— Willard Sterne Randall

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness… he must not forget that he is a person.

— Pope John Paul II