Quotes About Character

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

I am a man of my word… and that word is "unreliable.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.