Quotes About Character

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.