Quotes about Character
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
- CS Lewis
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
- Cicero
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
- Henry Ward Beecher
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
- Herman Melville
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
- John Tillotson
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
- St. Augustine
Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.
- Thomas a Kempis
The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)
- Confucius
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
- GK Chesterton