Leonardo da Vinci on character
“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
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As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The moment is timeless.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Time stays long enough for those who use it.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
AesopAesop Difficulty shows what men are.
EpictetusEpictetus You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Simon SinekSimon Sinek Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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