Quotes About Character

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.