Alexandre Dumas Quotes

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

When I use the words 'inner journey', I simply mean that you have looked at one aspect of the journey in your life called 'outer', now try to look at another aspect of the journey called 'inner'. You have been running after money, now run after meditation. You have been running after power, now run after God. Both are running. Once you start running after meditation then one day I will tell you, 'Now drop meditation too. Now stop running.' And when you stop running then real meditation happens.

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

It's the high-pressure situations that bring out the real you.

I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character.

We look at what we do to determine who we are.

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.

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

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection