Quotes About Character

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy