Marcus Aurelius Character Quotes

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

- Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.

- Marcus Aurelius

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

- Marcus Aurelius

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

- Marcus Aurelius

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

- Marcus Aurelius

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

- Marcus Aurelius

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart

- Marcus Aurelius

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

- Marcus Aurelius

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't become the most successful person that nobody likes.

- Mel Robbins

When someone betrays you, it is a reflection of their character, not yours.

- Anonymous

What you are will show in what you do

- Thomas Edison

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

- George Bernard Shaw

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

- Charles Darwin

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

- Benjamin Franklin