Quotes About Character

Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

A man is more than his failings.

A great man is one sentence.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.