Quotes About Character

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

It's a rare thing, graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired, but not, I think, the substance.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

Noble fathers have noble children.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

He's a chip o' th' old block.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.