Quotes About Character

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

President Trump is a man of his word.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.