Quotes About Character

All men of honor are alone.

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination.

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

Man is a moral being.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.