Quotes About Character

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

There was a little girl, And she had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good she was very, very good, When she was bad she was horrid.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

His Christianity was muscular.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

The soul of this man is his clothes.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

The only incorruptible thing about us.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

You never say a word of yourself, dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.