Quotes About Character

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.