Quotes About Character

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those who are not entirely beautiful.

It was the dream itself enchanted me: Character isolated by a deed To engross the present and dominate memory. Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of. [from "The Circus Animals' Desertion"]

I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

I have believed the best of every man.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

An honest man, close-button'd to the chin,Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.

Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life.

You know that I am a great believer that the faults of people are very often more determining than their qualities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." Emerson

My own view is that, while Aurangzeb is certainly a more complex figure than his detractors allow, and that it is true that early in his career he did protect Brahmins, patronise Hindu institutions and Hindu noblemen, and that he consulted with Hindu astrologers and physicians to the end, he was still an unusually cold, ruthless and unpleasant character, and his aggression and charmlessness did do much to undermine the empire he worked so hard to keep together.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Character is a superstition, a wretched fetish. Once a year wouldn't be too often to seize upon sinners whose blameless life has placed them above suspicion, and turn them inside out before the community, so as to show people how the smoke of the Pit had been quietly blackening their interior.

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.