Character Quote by Dorothea Dix

Man is not made better by being degraded.

— Dorothea Dix

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

— Brandon Sanderson

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

— Marcus Aurelius

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

— Lord Acton

“The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.…

— Oscar Wilde

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what…

— Anonymous

Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and…

— Theodore Parker

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of…

— Patrick Henry