Quotes about Character
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
— Robert Frost
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
— Harry S. Truman
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
— Henry David Thoreau
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
— Henry David Thoreau
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It takes a man to make a devil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
— Henry Ward Beecher