Quotes About Character

It takes a man to make a devil.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

Insecurity isn't an attractive quality in a man.

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

What a man knows isn't important. It's what he is that counts