Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I stress character, character, character.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

I'm proud of my dad's name. But I'm not running on my dad's name. I'm running on my dad's values.

At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

There is more than just words to define a person.

No sir. The first thing is character.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Ability without honor is useless.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

I think it's important to be with a guy who has a strong sense of integrity. That's how I was raised, and that's something I look for.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

What you are will show in what you do.