Quotes About Character

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

The people of great value are the people who have a noble inner man

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.