Quotes about Character
Even a young man is known by his actions—whether his conduct is pure and upright.
- Proverbs 20:11
A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
- Proverbs 22:1
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Proverbs 22:6
Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
- Proverbs 22:24
For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
- Proverbs 24:16
Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
- Proverbs 25:18
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
- Proverbs 25:26
Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
- Proverbs 26:23
As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.
- Proverbs 27:19
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.
- Proverbs 27:21
Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.
- Proverbs 28:6
Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
- Proverbs 28:14