Quotes About Character

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

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

Menjalani kehidupan setiap harinya seolah - olah hari itu adalah hari terakhir, tidak pernah mengalami kebingungan, tidak pernah bersikap apatis, tidak pernah latah untuk ikut - ikutan, itu semua adalah karakter sempurna

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight?

The truly fortunate person has created his own good fortune through good habits of the soul, good intentions, and good actions.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: Whatever anyone does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from a learned sage. Virtue is virtue, and in both cases the result is happiness for the one who is virtuous.

Your character is simply the sum of your thoughts over time.

But Marcus Aurelius knows that what the heart is full of, the man will do. 'Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are,' he says, 'such will thy mind be in time.' And every page of the book shows us that he knew thought was sure to issue in act. He drills his soul, as it were, in right principles, that when the time comes, it may be guided by them. To wait until the emergency is to be too late.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like [the wrong-doer].

Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense

whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be a good man. It is as if an emerald, or gold or purple, were always saying: 'Whatever anyone does or says, I must be an emerald and keep my own colour.

How unsound and insincere is he who says, I have determined to deal with thee in a fair way.—What art thou doing, man?

The highest good was the virtuous life. Virtue alone is happiness, and vice is unhappiness. Carrying this theory to its extreme, the Stoic said that there could be no gradations between virtue and vice, though of course each has its special manifestations.

Studying philosophy instills modesty and straightforwardness in your character.

Don't imagine that something is good for you if, in pursuing it, you must break a promise, harm anyone else, lose self-respect, act hypocritically, or hide in shame.

Never wilt your soul, never be just good, simple or unpolished. Manifest more then the body that surrounds yourself.

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.

The character of thy mind will be such as is the character of thy frequent thoughts, for the soul takes its dye from the thoughts.

It is ridiculous not to escape from one's own vices, which is possible, while trying to escape the vices of others, which is impossible.

And that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus.

And I observed that he had overcome all passion for boys;