Quotes About Character

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

For me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!