Quotes About Character

Coach Richt is a good friend of mine. I respect Coach Richt and worked for him for a year and respect the man he is and respect what he stands for.

More than the length, it's the meat of the character that is more important. It does not matter if you are on screen, standing in the corner for the whole film, as opposed to doing something that stands out in two scenes.

I've been part of shows that are long runners, and they're much more rigid. You get told, 'This is where the character stands, and this is how you say that line because we know it gets a laugh.'

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

Most important is be a good man.

Every virtuous man is free.

Men become old, but they never become good.

For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.