“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“Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3 quotes“Character is plot, plot is character.”
Theodore Roosevelt
3 quotes“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
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...”
Goethe
3 quotes“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.”
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...”
Spinoza
3 quotes“those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious”
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.”
Plato
2 quotes“The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
2 quotes“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
Marcus Aurelius
2 quotes“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Booker T. Washington
2 quotes“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.”