Quotes About Character

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.