The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?” — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures. — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
“The infantryman's way of life has a knack for distilling a man's character down to its most essential elements. If he measures… — Sean Parnell Copy Share Image
“I figure a man's character is like his coat, Flinn. Nobody knows if it's any damn good or not, until he's been… — Marie Jakober Copy Share Image
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end,… — Sonny Barger Copy Share Image
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and… — Ralph Moody Copy Share Image
There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Magic came from life itself, from the interaction of nature and the elements, from the energy of all living beings, and especially… — Jim butcher Copy Share Image
“There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference… — Price Collier Copy Share Image
“Misanthropist’s manifesto: Do not tell a friend what your enemy ought not to know. Giving way neither to love nor hate is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“In this country people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“A man's character is only formed after the impressions of childhood and early youth have become blended with the indefinable and hidden… — Miklós Bánffy Copy Share Image
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. He who controls others… — Some I Like Copy Share Image
“Must we believe those who tell us that a hand foul with the filth of a shameful life is the only one… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
