Quotes About Character

We can do noble acts without ruling earth and sea; for even with moderate advantages one can act excellently.

What a society honors will be cultivated.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them. The mere intellectual apprehension of them is not possible, or if possible, profitless.

for we are noble in only one way, but bad in all sorts of ways.

Hence poetry implies either a happy gift of nature or a strain of madness. In the one case a man can take the mould of any character; in the other, he is lifted out of his proper self.

Character in a play is that which reveals the moral purpose of the agents, ie, the sort of thing they seek or avoid, where that is not obvious— hence there is no room for character in a speech on a purely indifferent subject.

Komedya, ortalamadan daha kötü karakterleri, tragedya ise ortalamadan daha iyi olan karakterleri taklit etmek isterler.

No es posible o no es fácil remover por medio de la razón lo que está profundamente arraigado en el carácter

Quality is not an act, it is a habit

For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Virtue is a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

Nh?ng thói quen t?t ta hình thành khi còn tr? không t?o nên khác bi?t nh? nào, Ä'úng hÆ¡n, chúng t?o ra t?t c? khác bi?t

Or, in one word, the habits are produced from the acts of working like to them: and so what we have to do is to give a certain character to these particular acts, because the habits formed correspond to the differences of these.

It is plain then that the wicked man cannot be in the position of a friend even towards himself, because he has in himself nothing which can excite the sentiment of Friendship. If then to be thus is exceedingly wretched it is a man's duty to flee from wickedness with all his might and to strive to be good, because thus may he be friends with himself and may come to be a friend to another.

Men may be bad in many ways, But good in one alone.

But of Reason this too does evidently partake, as we have said: for instance, in the man of self-control it obeys Reason: and perhaps in the man of perfected self-mastery, or the brave man, it is yet more obedient; in them it agrees entirely with the Reason.

But the having such an opinion of themselves seems to have a deteriorating effect on the character: because in all cases men's aims are regulated by their supposed desert, and thus these men, under a notion of their own want of desert, stand aloof from honourable actions and courses, and similarly from external goods.

for it is not the sober man who is exposed either to plots or contempt, but the drunkard; not the early riser, but the sluggard.

For [people] are good18 in one way, but in all kinds of ways bad

Neither by nature, therefore, nor contrary to nature are the virtues present; they are instead present in us who are of such a nature as to receive them, and who are completed1 through habit.

Je vois les choses de plus haut. Je sens trop ma force pour m'abaisser à de telles intrigues, si au-dessous de mon caractère ; je marche d'une allure plus franche. On me reprocherait avec plus de raison, peut-être, de faire ma politique comme les torrents font leur lit.

Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.