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
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN As” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party. — Lord Chesterfield 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
Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades… — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking,… — Orson F. Whitney 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
“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
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
There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“There is no vanity so damaging to a man's character as pride over his good deeds!” — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes?" "That's” — Phoebe Conn Copy Share Image
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We all are brought up on some values, and I believe values define a man's character. — Mahima Chaudhry Copy Share Image
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame. — Billy Casper Copy Share Image
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
