Quotes About Character

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

A man's mind is elevated to the status of the women he associates with.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

The value of a man resides in what he gives

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.