Quotes About Character

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

By men's words we know them.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.