Quotes about Character
A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
— Confucius
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
— David O. McKay
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
— Edmund Burke
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
— Elbert Hubbard
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
— George Bernard Shaw
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
— George Eliot
George H. W. Bush is gracious. And I'm not saying any of the former presidents aren't gracious, I'm just saying, this man is gracious.
— George W. Bush
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
— GK Chesterton
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
— GK Chesterton
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
— GK Chesterton
Few men are wantonly wicked.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
— Marcus Aurelius