Quotes about Character
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
— George Bernard Shaw
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
— Mark Twain
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.
— AW Tozer
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
— CS Lewis
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
— Cicero
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
— Henry Ward Beecher
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
— Herman Melville
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
— John Tillotson