Quotes About Character

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

People follow courage, not titles.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.