Quotes About Character

If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Habit is a second nature.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

We come to feel as we behave.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.