“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.”
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Dean Koontz
4 quotes“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3 quotes“Character is plot, plot is character.”
Anne Frank
3 quotes“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in...”
Confucius
3 quotes“The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the op...”
Goethe
3 quotes“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.”
Spinoza
3 quotes“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”
Theodore Roosevelt
3 quotes“I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!”
Plutarch
2 quotes“Character is long-standing habit.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 quotes“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
Marcus Aurelius
2 quotes“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
2 quotes“Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who're best able to decieve themselves.”
Stendhal
2 quotes“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”