Quotes About Character

Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

but he has never played the demagogue.

It's nice to be important , but more important ot be nice.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

First of all, be what you are.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

When I was your age we had men in the church—don't frown, it makes me want to clout you—men I say—make what you like of the word-heads of a parish, masters, my boy, rulers.  They could hold a whole country together, that sort could—with a mere lift of the chin.  Oh, I know what you're going to say: they fed well, drank good wine and didn't object to a game of cards.  Well, what of it?

The work God carries out in us,' he said after a short pause, 'is not often what we expect. A great deal of the time the Holy Spirit seems to be working backward in us and wasting time. If a lump of iron could form an idea of the file that's slowly rough-shaping it, how furious it would be! Yet that's how God shapes us. Certain saints' lives seem horribly monotonous and desolate.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

It was due to this attitude of pomposity that he set the villa on fire. Leslie

It had a tremendously wide head with golden eyes and a sulky, pouting mouth.

you don't have to be a boss to be a leader

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all,' the priest commented. 'Alhough humility would be better.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all," the priest said. "Although humility would be better.

One character all messages had in common was vague generality. "Fly away with me," a tussie-mussie might suggest, but never "Meet me at the railway depot at six-thirty.

He saw his daughter as a kind-hearted, dutiful, but vaguely pitiable soul. David, like many people, had made the mistake of confusing 'meek' with 'weak.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.