Quotes About Character

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.