Quotes about Character
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
— Jerry Falwell
A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.
— Confucius
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
— Cicero
God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe.
— John Hagee
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
— John Milton
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.
— Confucius
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
— Booker T. Washington
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
— Booker T. Washington
Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.
— James Hayford
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
— John Owen