Character Quotes

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved yo" "Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good" "The discipline of desire is the background of character." "It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do" "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds" "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual" "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important " "The true test of a leader is how well he functions in a crisis" "Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art." "Where envy reigns virtue can't live." "Virtue is the truest nobility." "No man is more than another unless he does more than another." "Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming" "The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem." "Good means not merely not to do wrong but rather not to desire to do wrong." "Courage marks a man out even better than physical strength." "A man must stand by his words as solidly as by his laws." "I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irrevocably cynical." "There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage." "You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps"