Quotes About Character

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

I am sure that, after all, any man in my place should set a positive example for other people.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

Such antics do not amount to a man.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.