Quotes about Character
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- Samuel Johnson
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
- Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
- Theodore Roosevelt
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
- Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
- Thomas Jefferson
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
- Herbert Hoover
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
- Phillips Brooks
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
- Aristotle
Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.
- AW Pink
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis