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Quotes About Character

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
~ Horace
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
~ James Russell Lowell
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.
~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
~ John Locke
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
~ John Webster
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
~ John Wooden
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
~ Josh Billings
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
~ Louis L'Amour
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
~ Luc de Clapiers
I am not an economist. I am an honest man!
~ Mark Twain
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
~ Martial
Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.
~ Miguel Torres
A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.
~ Pope Clement I
A brave man is seldom unkind.
~ Pretty Shield
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
~ Samuel Johnson
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
~ Seneca the Younger
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
~ Sydney J. Harris