Quotes about Character

Only the brave know how to forgive…. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

What we do flows from who we are.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness

Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to.