Quotes About Character

When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

A man must be himself or nothing!

The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.