Quotes about Character
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
— St. Augustine
Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.
— Thomas a Kempis
The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)
— Confucius
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
— GK Chesterton
Beware the lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready assumption that the lovely façade must needs have lovely chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
— Erica Jong
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
— AW Tozer
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
— Alexander Hamilton
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
— CS Lewis
a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
— Charles Dickens
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
— Charles Spurgeon
A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.
— Charles Spurgeon