Quotes About Character

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

No man is born without faults.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

The best of men are men at best

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.