Quotes About Character

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.