Quotes About Character

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

A man is no better than he has to be.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler!

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.