Quotes About Character

8. It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you—inside or out.

Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.

no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

To stand up straight — not straightened

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.

It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.

goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

Kingship: to earn a bad reputation by good deeds.

Use the setback to practice other virtues.

And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.

Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.

To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice. But I see one to counter pleasure: self-control.

If it doesn't harm your character, how can it harm your life?

A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults.

FROM my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper.  From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich. From