Quotes About Character

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.