Quotes About Character

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.