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Quotes About Character

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
~ Charles Wagner
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
~ Confucius
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
~ Confucius
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
~ Emily Dickinson
I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
~ Forest Whitaker
Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
~ George Michael
Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.
~ Albert Goodwill Spalding
Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
~ Alexander Pope
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
~ Antoine Rivarol
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
~ Aristotle
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
~ Bram Stoker
The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.
~ Charles Spurgeon
A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
~ Confucius
One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.
~ Deborah Kerr
The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.
~ Earl Nightingale
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.
~ Enoch L. Johnson
Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.
~ Geoffrey B. Wilson
Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
~ Honore de Balzac
This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.
~ J.R. Miller
You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon
~ Jase Robertson
No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here
~ Jay-Z
Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!
~ John Mellencamp
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
~ Joseph Addison