Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Character, Soul

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

• To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Character, Perfection

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.7, no.69 (translated by M Staniforth).

• Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Character, Men

• Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Character, Dignity

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (32), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character, Tasks

• I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character, Men, Action

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.65, Modern Library

• Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Character, Carpe Diem

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.116, Penguin UK

• As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Home, Character, Eye

• Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character, Soul, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.84, Penguin UK

• This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character, Perfect, Agitation

• The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character, Hypocrite, Perfection

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.82, Enhanced Media Publishing

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