Quotes About Character

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

Look twice at a two-faced man.

Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.