Quotes about Character
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
— Peter Kreeft
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
— Oscar Wilde
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
— Oscar Wilde
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
— Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
— Theodore Roosevelt
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
— Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
— Thomas Jefferson
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
— Herbert Hoover
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
— Phillips Brooks