Personality and character Quotes

Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great

It is much easier to be critical than correct

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

My pride fell with my fortunes

We are what we repeatedly do

He who is brave is free

I awoke one morning and found myself famous

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers

Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind.

Beauty and folly are old companions

Goodness is beauty in the best estate

Rare is the union of beauty and purity

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions