Quotes About Character

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same colour.

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was material for a good man & a rogue)

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Du bist am Ende was du bist.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.

No one should desire to live in irregular circumstances; but if by chance a man falls into them, they test his character and show of how much determination he is capable.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

It matters not how long we live but how.