Quotes about Character
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
— CS Lewis
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
— CS Lewis
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
— Elbert Hubbard
It is difficulties that show what men are.
— Epictetus
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
— Euripides
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
— Samuel Johnson
Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
— Tony Evans
An honest man is respected by all parties.
— William Hazlitt
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
— Joseph Addison
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
— Aristotle
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
— St. Augustine