Quotes About Character

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

An honest man is respected by all parties.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

Each man's soul is his genius.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

Only great men have great faults.

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.