—Epicurus
Showing posts with label character. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character. Show all posts
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Post #3282
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
Sunday, April 06, 2025
Post #3276
If from a thousand pecks of beans you steal one, my loss indeed in that way is less serious, but not so your crime.
—Horace
Sunday, February 02, 2025
Post #3267
Those who eat but to support life, who wed but for the sake of progeny, and who speak but to declare the truth, surmount difficulties.
—The Hitopadesa
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Post #3266
Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
―George Bernard Shaw
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Post #3244
Let people hold on to these:
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
—Lao Tzu
Sunday, June 09, 2024
Post #3233
Character is not cut in marble : it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
—George Eliot
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Sunday, August 20, 2023
Post #3190
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
—José Ortega y Gasset
—José Ortega y Gasset
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Post #3132
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing, If you lose your health, you have lost something, But if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
—Woodrow Wilson
Sunday, May 03, 2020
Post #3017
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Post #3015
Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.
—Jean Paul Richter
—Jean Paul Richter
Monday, January 06, 2020
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Post #2492
Be good and you will be lonesome.
―Mark Twain
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's What Living is to Me.
―Jimmy Buffett
Wednesday, October 05, 2016
Friday, July 01, 2016
Post #2110
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Monday, February 22, 2016
Friday, January 22, 2016
Post #1995
Character is like stock in trade; the more of it a man possesses, the greater his facilities for making additions to it. Character is power — is influence; it makes friends; creates funds; draws patronage and support; and opens a pure and easy way to wealth, honor, and happiness.
—Dr. Joel Hawes
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent, but yet a Character