Quotes About Character

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Honor is decency without vanity.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

Your value is nothing if you cannot honor your word. If you do not mean what you say, you are the most mean person on the Earth.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.

Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors].

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel."(Analects 2.12)

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.