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

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Family, Happiness

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Character, Men

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Rude, Weakness

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. II), 1916.

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• A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

  Lysander Spooner

  Character, Men, Rights

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.7

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• To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Golf, Men

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.130, The Floating Press

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• We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Liars, Hero, Character

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