Quotes about Character

He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.

There are good men everywhere, at all times. Most men are. Some are just unlucky, because most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. And I've known some that even the circumstances couldn't stop. ~from 'Delta Autumn

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.

Character is always more caught than taught.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.