Quotes about Character

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Example is leadership.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

To confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is so prevalent that I…would willingly risk my life, tho' not my character, to exalt my station. I'm confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it, but I mean to prepare the way for futurity… My folly makes me ashamed, yet Neddy we have seen such schemes successful when the projector is constant. I shall conclude saying I wish there was a war.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.