Quotes About Character

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

There is no strong beer, just weak men

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

A man is known by the company he keeps

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse