Quotes about Character
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.
- Marcus Aurelius
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.
- Marcus Aurelius
No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.
- Marcus Aurelius
Goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.
- Marcus Aurelius
And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.
- Marcus Aurelius
Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.
- Marcus Aurelius
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.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.
- Marcus Aurelius
The truly fortunate person has created his own good fortune through good habits of the soul, good intentions, and good actions.
- Marcus Aurelius
Your character is simply the sum of your thoughts over time.
- Marcus Aurelius
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
- Marcus Aurelius
Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense
- Marcus Aurelius