Quotes About Character

The names were supposed to describe the shape of your spirit as well as your physical characteristics.

I like my heroes to be alive," she told me. "I like them to grow old." I, too, admire my idols more for the lines on their faces, for the bumps and bruises, the cuts and scar tissue.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

As a man thinketh, so is he

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

that my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not—of

From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

Mr. Clark Howell, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, telegraphed to a New York paper, among other words, the following, "I do not exaggerate when I say that Professor Booker T. Washington's address yesterday was one of the most notable speeches, both as to character and as to the warmth of its reception, ever delivered to a Southern audience. The address was a revelation. The whole speech is a platform upon which blacks and whites can stand with full justice to each other.

I tried to emphasize the fact that while the Negro should not be deprived by unfair means of the franchise, political agitation alone would not save him, and that back of the ballot he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character, and that no race without these elements could permanently succeed.

In all my acquaintance with General Armstrong I never heard him speak, in public or in private, a single bitter word against the white man in the South. From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

My experience teaches me that if a man has little or no influence with those by whose side he lives, as a rule there is something wrong with him.

He was too big to be little, too good to be mean.

The effect of this movement, or revolution, as I have called it, is not to "tear down and level up" in order to bring about an artificial equality, but to give every individual a chance "to make good," to determine for himself his place and position in the community by the character and quality of the service he is able to perform.

great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a 'born leader', declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister. He wished that Britain had 'a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today'. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!

If ever you wanted a 12-cylinder, 6-litre entire combustible world consumer, that man is Churchill.

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

Perhaps the natural character of a man may be best seen before breakfast. The world is created anew for us every morning, and he is just then reissued, as it were, from the hands of nature, with all his original peculiarities fresh upon him.