Quotes About Character

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.

Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.