True Character Quotes

• Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Inspirational, Character, Knowledge And Power

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• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Motivation, Character

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• You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

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  Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

  Mother Teresa

  Character, Treats, Can Do

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• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Character, Men

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• Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Attitude, Character

  Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.

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• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

  E. O. Wilson

  Character, Atheism, Arise

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.365, Vintage

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• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  Harold J. Warner

  Heart, Character, Ministry

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• The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

  Alma Katsu

  Men, Helping Others, Personal Qualities

  Alma Katsu (2011). “The Taker: Book One of the Taker Trilogy”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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  The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Success, Respect

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• You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

  Paul McCartney

  Character, Animal, Men

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• Adversity defines true character.

  Ray Lewis

  Character, Adversity

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• What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.

  Michael Josephson

  Attitude, Taken, Character

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• The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Character, Society

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2016

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• True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

  Corliss Lamont

  Character, Self, Acting

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• The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

  Anne Frank

  Character, Swings, Way

  "The Diary of a Young Girl". Book by Anne Frank, 1952.

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• In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and repossession, and suffer his reason and feelings to determine for themselves; and that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of man, and generously enlarge his view beyond the present day.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Science, Simple

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• No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Children, Character

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• No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself. Thus a man's wife, however realistic her view of him, always flatters him in the end, for the worst she sees in him is appreciably better, by the time she sees it, than what is actually there.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Character, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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• I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Character, Thinking, Two

  "Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence".

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• Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of these two iconic westerners emerge to suppress myth and correct more than a century of tomes laden with bad history.

  Robert M. Utley

  Character, Two, Research

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