Character Quote by Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

— Blaise Pascal

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

— Blaise Pascal

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own…

— William Hazlitt

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

— Lyman Bryson

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

— Plato

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

— Ammianus Marcellinus

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

— Confucius

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that…

— Samuel Johnson

A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.

— Deepak Chopra

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

— Elie Wiesel

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

— Morgan Llywelyn