character Quotes

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety... ...

All good qualities are summarized by acting fairly.

Among all good qualities, generosity is the most loved.

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things... ...

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Suffering looks beautiful when someone bravely handles big problems with cheerfulness, not because they don't feel anything, but because they have a strong mind.

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds... ...

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the... ...