Quotes About Character

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

The good man makes others good.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

A gallant man is above ill words.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.