Quotes About Character

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

A modest man never talks of himself.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.

The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

By evil report and good report.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

To be somebody you must last.

Tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.