Quotes About Character

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

Good men must be affectionate men.

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

Men's language is as their lives.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.