Quotes About Character

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

I am a man of my word.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.

Men die the way they lived.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.