Quotes about Character

I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.

people seemed to hold that the one sole end of the entire establishment of public office was to elect one man like Sheriff Hampton big enough or at least with sense and character enough to run the county and then fill the rest of the jobs with cousins and inlaws who had failed to make a living at everything else they ever tried.

He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.

There are good men everywhere, at all times. Most men are. Some are just unlucky, because most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. And I've known some that even the circumstances couldn't stop. ~from 'Delta Autumn

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.

Character is always more caught than taught.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.