Michelle Moran Quotes

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

Who would you be without your story?

Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

Only you know who you were born to be and you need to be free to be that person.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.