Quotes about Character

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.

To understand the nature and quantity of government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character. As Nature created him for social life, she fitted him for the station she intended. In all cases she made his natural wants greater than his individual powers. No one man is capable, without the aid of society, of supplying his own wants, and those wants, acting upon every individual, impel the whole of them into society, as naturally as gravitation acts to a center.