Quotes About Character

By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man

You can either be a con or a man—you can't be both.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.

We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.