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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect." Dr. Samuel Johnson 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor." Jennifer Jones 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness." John Keats 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." Helen Adams Keller 4.6875 average rating Rate this Quote
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have a dream that my 4 children will one day live in a nation Where they will not be judged by the color of their skin But by the content of their character." Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." Georg Christopher Lichtenberg 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." Thomas Babington Macaulay 4.5517 average rating Rate this Quote
"To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give." W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." James Albert Michener Rate this Quote
"Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without." John Stuart Mill 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze." Jean Nathan Miller 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over." Herbert Mitgang 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Character is what you are in the dark." Dwight Lyman Moody 4.7333 average rating Rate this Quote
"If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished." (Proposal to reform welfare programs)" Richard Milhouse Nixon Rate this Quote
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." Eleanor Roosevelt 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be." George Santayana 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
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