"Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given."

Character, Mind, Excellence, Strength

10

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given."

Exlpore more Character quotes

"It takes grace to be a great soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Grace, Soul, Greatness, Virtue

"It is better to act right than seek right."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Action, Right, Moral, Choice

"It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Character, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Happiness

"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Fairness, Kindness, Compassion, Treat

"Lack of courage leads to cruelty."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Courage, Cruelty, Fear, Morality

"Don't marry the most beautiful woman in the world, marry the woman with the most beautiful deeds."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Character, Beauty, Woman, Deeds, Love

"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Character, Humility, Learning, Self

"Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Character, Integrity, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Character, Humility, Patience, Virtue

"A pretty heart is more valuable than a pretty face."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Character, Pretty Heart, Pretty Face, Value, Beauty

Explore more quotes by Plato

"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."

Wisdom

"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."

Art

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him."

Art

"And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man "whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation."

Knowledge

"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them."

Society

"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."

Philosophy

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something."

Wisdom

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."

Wisdom

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

Politics

"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."

Wisdom