Quotes About Character

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

Man sees your actions, but God your motives.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.

The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.