Quotes About Character

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

When you've got the personality, you don't need the nudity.

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

Weak people cannot be sincere.

(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise."