quote: character

  • The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

  • Only the shallow know themselves. – Oscar Wilde

  • There is a great man, who makes very many feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G. K. Chesterton

  • Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. – George Eliot