Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
Adversity defines true character.
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.
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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