I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Character Quotes
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
It is safest to be moderately base – to be flexible in shame and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Dad: Bug bites build character. Calvin: Yeah, and last year you said diarrhea builds character. Dad: So think what a fine young man you’re growing up to be. Calvin: If all this character doesn’t kill me first. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
Many men, suspected of being good fellows, have, when the evidence was summed up, proved an alibi.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
A team that has character doesn’t need stimulation.
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
