Quotes About Character

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you're a better man than I

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

A man is known by the company he owns.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.