Top 38 Quotes About Measure Of Character
#1. What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.
Ian Usher
#2. But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson
#3. And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.
John F. Kerry
#4. True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person - the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments - is the true measure of lasting greatness.
Billy Graham
#5. The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.
David Wolpe
#6. The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
Bryan Stevenson
#7. Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .
Miya Yamanouchi
#8. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Malcolm Forbes
#9. Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
Brian Tracy
#10. I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character
P.C. Cast
#12. Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.
Frederick The Great
#13. Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.
Billy Graham
#14. What is character, if not a man's measure of himself against his friends and enemies?
Christopher Moore
#15. The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
Bill Courtney
#16. The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing
William James Moore
#17. There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
Seneca The Younger
#18. Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge
Gordon Brown
#19. Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
Les Brown
#20. Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.
Orly Wahba
#21. Character is the measure of our freedom from the tyranny of our instincts. It is the space we create between our urges and our actions.
Valson Thampu
#22. In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
Ralph Adams Cram
#23. You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
Winston Churchill
#24. The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It's what you do when you think no one is looking.
Jason Mraz
#25. The true measure of a person's character is how one handles one's failures, not successes.
Bill Courtney
#26. Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
#27. Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.
Jacques Barzun
#28. One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.
H.L. Mencken
#29. I suppose that one's years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.
Peter Koevari
#30. A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.
David O. McKay
#31. The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#32. How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.
Hyrum W. Smith
#33. A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes of unchanging truth, by a will that is the real measure of what is right, and therefore of what is good.
Alan Keyes
#34. The true measure
of your character
is what you would
do if you were sure
no one would ever
find out.
John C. Maxwell
#35. Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#36. It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
Plutarch
#37. The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato
#38. People in the U.K. absolutely love my character in 'Downton,' and in equal measure, people absolutely hate him, and that's all I wanted.
Tom Cullen
