#character

125 quotes

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

— Jane Austen

#love #tenderness #character

“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#kindness #nobility #character

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#karma #revenge #character

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.”

— Heraclitus

#life #thoughts #character

“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”

— Meister Eckhart

#life #being #purpose

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

— Unknown

#failure #resilience #character

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#integrity #discipline #character

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

— Samuel Johnson

#kindness #character

“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth.”

— Frederick Douglass

#justice #growth #perseverance

“Whatever you are be a good one”

— Abraham Lincoln

#karma #excellence #character

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#perspective #character #self-awareness

“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”

— Plutarch

#acceptance #character #adversity

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

#beauty #inner light #character

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”

— George Sand

#kindness #generosity #character

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully.”

— Jim Rohn

#leadership #balance #character

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

— Seneca

#adversity #growth #character

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

— James Russell Lowell

#solitude #imagination #balance

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

— Plato

#power #character #measure

“There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.”

— Joseph Addison

#justice #virtue #greatness

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”

— Book of Proverbs

#humility #character #wisdom

“The ecological crisis is a crisis of character not a crisis of resources.”

— Arne Naess

#nature #ecology #character

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”

— Marcus Aurelius

#karma #thoughts #character

“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”

— William Penn

#leadership #self-discipline #character

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”

— Virgil

#gratitude #virtue #character

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#dream #character

“The measure of a man is what he does with power”

— Plato

#justice #power #character

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#integrity #struggle #character

“It is difficulties that show what men are.”

— Epictetus

#abundance #challenges #character

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#gratitude #virtue #character

“To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

#failure #courage #character

“Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”

— Charles Reade

#purpose #habits #destiny

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#beauty #heart #inner light

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

#karma #value #character

“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have”

— Vince Lombardi

#empowerment #resourcefulness #character

“Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.”

— Unknown

#beauty #virtue #character

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#simplicity #greatness #character

“The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.”

— Seneca

#gratitude #honesty #character

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.”

— Cicero

#gratitude #virtue #character

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#simplicity #excellence #character

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”

— Khalil Gibran

#resilience #suffering #character

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#love #identity #character

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

— Will Durant

#habits #excellence #discipline

“If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.”

— Confucius

#peace #righteousness #harmony

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

— George Washington

#accountability #integrity #character

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

— Cicero

#gratitude #virtue #character

“In a calm sea every man is a pilot.”

— John Ray

#leadership #adversity #challenge

“Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.”

— Book of Proverbs

#humility #wisdom #character

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.”

— Helen Keller

#character #adversity #strength

“The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.”

— Julius Charles Hare

#simplicity #truth #greatness

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#motivation #action #character

“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.”

— George Washington

#character #reputation #growth

“The wretched have no compassion; they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”

— Samuel Johnson

#compassion #duty #suffering

“Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other.”

— Thomas Fuller

#karma #integrity #transparency

“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”

— Confucius

#life #virtue #character

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

#leadership #character #power

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#resilience #suffering #strength

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#thoughts #character #stoicism

“The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.”

— Confucius

#action #humility #work

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

— Nelson Mandela

#resilience #perseverance #courage

“To conquer oneself is the first and noblest of all victories.”

— Plato

#self-mastery #character #achievement

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#leadership #wisdom #judgment

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#gratitude #action #thankfulness

“Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.”

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

#learning #humility #wisdom

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”

— Book of Proverbs

#self-control #strength #character

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man character, give him power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

#adversity #power #character

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#action #character #discipline

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

— Confucius

#wisdom #humility #action

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

— Unknown

#success #value #character

“It is what we make out of what we have not what we are given that separates one person from another”

— Nelson Mandela

#friendship #effort #character

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

#value #success #character

“Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health but in men on a well-formed character”

— Democritus

#friendship #character #breeding

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#solitude #independence #character

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#resilience #character #challenge

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”

— Plato

#learning #wisdom #character

“He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.”

— Philip Massinger

#leadership #self-mastery #discipline

“Character is destiny.”

— Heraclitus

#character #destiny #fate

“Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great”