Quotes about Character
Beware the lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready assumption that the lovely façade must needs have lovely chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
- Erica Jong
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
- AW Tozer
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
- Alexander Hamilton
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
- CS Lewis
a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
- Charles Dickens
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
- Charles Spurgeon
A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.
- Charles Spurgeon
A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
- Confucius
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
- David O. McKay
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
- Edmund Burke
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
- Elbert Hubbard