Quotes about Character
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
- Henry David Thoreau
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It takes a man to make a devil.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
- Herman Melville