Quotes About Character

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

Even great men can be corrupted

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.

We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

"The best of men are just men at best.

God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.