Quotes about Character
If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don't make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: " He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.
— Epictetus
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
— Epictetus
And every animal is better or worse from his own merit (virtue) or his own badness. Is there then no virtue in man only? and must we look to the hair, and our clothes and to our ancestors?
— Epictetus
And who can give to another the things which he has not himself?
— Epictetus
I am prepared to show you that you have resources and a character naturally strong and resilient; show me in return what grounds you have for being peevish and malcontent.
— Epictetus
I hope death overtakes me when I'm occupied solely with the care of my character, in an effort to make it passionless, free, unrestricted and unrestrained.
— Epictetus
Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap.
— Epictetus
What, then, is your own? The way you live your life.
— Epictetus
A bad person's character cannot be trusted, it's weak and indecisive, easily won over by different impressions at different times.
— Epictetus
He didn't care; it was not his skin he wanted to save, but the man of honour and integrity. These things are not open to compromise or negotiation.
— Epictetus
The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
— Amy Grant
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
— Andrew Carnegie