- We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. Cato The Elder
- How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself? Epictetus
- A boy knows, a man does. Carlos Del Valle
- “Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.” ― Raheel Farooq
- Character is destiny. Heraclitus
- You become more attractive when you don’t need love. You become richer when you don’t need money. You become more convincing when you don’t need to impress. @orangebook_
- You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans. Ronald Reagan
- “Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.” ― Ann Landers
- Character is what you are in the dark. Dwight L. Moody
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. Aristotle
- “people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.” ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
- “Character means everything that is human about you… Character means a sense of community – character means a desire for learning and growth – character means the guts to admit and mend one’s own errors and shortcomings – character means the yearning for assimilation.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
- Human reason grows rich by self-conquest. Publius Syrus
- “Like any currency of value, the human imagination is a coin with two inseparable sides. It is our faculty of fancy that fills the disquieting gaps of the unknown with the tranquilizing certitudes of myth and superstition, that points to magic and witchcraft when common sense and reason fail to unveil causality. But that selfsame faculty is also what leads us to rise above accepted facts, above the limits of the possible established by custom and convention, and reach for new summits on the degree of courage, determined by some incalculable combination of nature, culture, and character.” ― Maria Popova, Figuring
- It’s easy to have emotional control when everything is going well. It’s only during stormy seas that we see who are the real sailors. Ed Latimore
- “Humans are worshipping creatures, and even when they don’t consciously or even unconsciously worship any kind of god they are all involved in the adoring pursuit of something greater than themselves. Worship transforms humans, all of us, all the time, since you become like what you worship: those who worship money, power or sex have their characters formed by those strange powers, so that little by little the money-worshipper sees and experiences the world in terms of financial opportunities or dangers, the power-hungry person sees and experiences the world and other humans in terms of chances to gain power or threats to existing power, and the sex-worshipper sees the world in terms of possible conquests (that word is interesting in itself) or rivals. Those who consciously and deliberately choose not to worship those gods still have a range of others to select from, each of which will be character-forming in various ways.” ― N.T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God
- The wise never try to impress: they just do what must be done. Maxime Lagacé
- Character is doing what’s right. Jocko Willink
- “The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.” ― Nouman Ali Khan
- “I really do literally put myself into a character’s shoes.” ― Ruth Rendell
- “It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- “There was nowhere I had to be tomorrow, yet something kept pushing me to hurry and make up lost time. But lost to what? Who finds time that is lost? Time is never lost, we give it away, dump it out, character is everything, and I had not wanted to withhold myself anymore, that was all.” ― Arthur Miller
- “In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.” ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
- “I’m not saying that I think one man is better than the other. I’m not saying that either is kinder or wiser or more ambitious, more thoughtful, confident, or able. But the fact is that when I’m with the one, comfort settles into my bones. I feel calm around him, as if the sun is smiling down on me and the world has suddenly become a sweet, safe place to be. I feel good about life―about myself. And it’s hard not to want to be near someone who, just by their very nature, makes you feel that way.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
- “Your world needs heroes. Be Heroes!” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
- “If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions – it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.” ― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
- “[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.” ― Aristophanes, The Knights
- Avoid banquets which are given by strangers and by ignorant persons. But if ever there is occasion to join in them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manners of the vulgar (the uninstructed). Epictetus (Enchiridion)
- The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t. Marcus Aurelius
- “In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.” ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker