Quotes About Character

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

As the government is, such will be the man.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

Men in all ways are better than they seem.