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Character Quotes by Epictetus
- Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The…
- Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier,…
- If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that…
- Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a…
- We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
- One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
- Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
More Character Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong