Quotes About Character

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.