Quotes About Character

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Men may sometimes be rather similar, but no two women are ever alike.

Evil is an aberration of personality. Often ingrained in the mind at birth.

Not Sushila.' 'Not Sushila.

All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it. They go around the country boasting about their humility. They are proud of their humility. Many are downright arrogant about their humility and insist that it qualifies them to be President.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.

You cannot trust a man with your money who cannot take care of his own.

own. You cannot trust a man in your family that is not true to his own wife. You cannot trust a man in the world that does not begin with his own heart, his own character, and his own life.

The moment a young man or woman gets more money than he or she has grown to by practical experience, that moment he has gotten a curse. It is no help to a young man or woman to inherit money. It is no help to your children to leave them money, but if you leave them education, if you leave them Christian and noble character, if you leave them a wide circle of friends, if you leave them an honorable name, it is far better than that they should have money.

Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird.

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart

With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back.

Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.

With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back.

A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.

Part of being a man is doing what is right, no matter what people think of you. That is the sacrifice you must make.

To be somebody, you must last.

Truly, the best thing any of us have to bring to leadership is our own transforming selves.

In my hometown, there are two brothers with contrary characters. One is clever and eloquent, the other is foolish and silent. The foolish one seems to have all the time in the world. The clever one is always busy depleting his life.

If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.