Top 100 Quotes About True Character
#1. You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance ... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.
Steve Maraboli
#2. To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
Thomas Merton
#3. True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#4. In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
Gail Carson Levine
#5. People don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character
Chad Kultgen
#6. No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Marcelene Cox
#7. The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
#8. The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.
P.G. Wodehouse
#10. It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
Franz Grillparzer
#11. The deceit in loving a woman sometimes, is that most women fall in love with assumed personality, but eventually live with their true character.
Auliq Ice
#12. To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P.G. Wodehouse
#13. People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
Joyce Meyer
#14. 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.
Anne Frank
#16. It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
Camille Pissarro
#17. Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.
Plutarch
#18. You can discover a person's true character by examining how their actions align with their words.
Janice Anderson
#20. It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.
Cassia Leo
#21. It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.
Christopher Earle
#22. Failure teaches us the most important life lesson; it's how we find our true character.
J.C. Phillips
#23. I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!
Anne Frank
#24. No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
Seneca The Younger
#25. There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
Alison Goodman
#26. 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.
Corliss Lamont
#27. People reveal their true character when they're off center.
Ted Dekker
#28. You find out the true character of a person when they don't take advantage of a sure thing.
Alison G. Bailey
#29. It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
John Wooden
#30. O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!
Hosea Ballou
#31. And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
Anna Friel
#32. Hypocrites - they wear gorgeous cloaks lined with lead; pretty outside, awful inside; heavy cloaks force them to behave sedately, although seething within; cloak true character in false appearance.
Dante Alighieri
#33. There is no effort in collecting judgements. Being wise with them requires a act of true character.
Joel Kirkpatrick
#34. It's in the routine, not the big heroic moments, that our true character is exposed. That
Dave Workman
#35. Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
Edmund Burke
#36. True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.
Alyson Noel
#37. You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. 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.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#39. Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like Churchill, quickly chafe at missing interaction and opportunity.
William Manchester
#40. That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.
Martin Luther
#41. In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
Bryant Gumbel
#42. She scanned the Starveil posts, her mood darkening. Spartan had been a part of her life since elementary school. Losing him felt like having a piece of herself torn away. No amount of fix-it fics or alternate universes could change the fact her one true character had died.
Danika Stone
#43. The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
Eugene V. Debs
#44. But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.
Ellen G. White
#45. True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Robert McKee
#46. Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been an apostasy, or a falling away from the true character of Christ's teachings in the centuries which followed the Apostolic age.
Lowell L. Bennion
#47. No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.
Dalai Lama
#48. 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.
Robert M. Utley
#49. The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#50. It was easy to be proud of the kid who got straight A's and who made the winning basket-a kid the world already adored. But true character showed when you could find something to love in a child everyone else hated.
Jodi Picoult
#51. It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.
Philip Jose Farmer
#52. I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into the scene. And that's when you really find out who your character is.
Tye Sheridan
#53. It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person's true character.
Billy Graham
#54. If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.
Gina Greenlee
#56. Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
James K. Polk
#57. What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#58. Stressful situations cause alterations in behavior that reveal true character, Tibbs. If a person gradually begins acting like someone else altogether, you may very well find that they *are* someone else altogether" -Inspector Percival Pensive
Jessica Lawson
#59. The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.
David Breashears
#60. The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Voltaire
#61. Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.
Hugo Hamilton
#63. When you win big, that is the time your true character will show.
Stephen Richards
#65. Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.
Sathya Sai Baba
#66. The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Harold Warner
#67. Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
Mother Teresa
#68. It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.
Virginia Wade
#69. Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world.
Alexander B. Morrison
#70. Act in a way that is congruent with your true character.
Robin S. Sharma
#71. The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.
John Nelson Darby
#72. The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Joseph Joubert
#73. You can tell the true character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him." "If you don't believe in God, you should believe in the technology that's going to make us immortal.
Timothy Ferriss
#74. It is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
Michael Connelly
#75. We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
Amy Goodman
#76. You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
Paul McCartney
#78. You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character! Yours,
Anne Frank
#79. There are moments in life where you don't get a do-over, where the true nature of your character is revealed. You either step up to the plate or lose your chance forever. These moments shape a life. These moments earn you the right to say to yourself 'at least I got the important stuff right.
P. Dangelico
#80. It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.
Katherine Reutter
#81. It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.
Louis Garrel
#82. Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.
Paul Bourget
#83. True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always doing your utmost to repay debts of gratitude. Such people radiate integrity, depth of character, bigheartedness and charm.
Josei Toda
#84. It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.
John Lloyd Young
#85. One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
Anne Lamott
#86. The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
#87. True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
Stephen Covey
#88. For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.
Dean Norris
#89. Evil is a broad church. There are so many different ways to be evil. Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in True Blood. He was pretty angsty about it, but he thought he was doing the right thing.
James Frain
#90. For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.
Aristotle.
#91. Paranoid can also be defined as "carefully smart"! Almost every episode of SVU is based on a true story; I'd watched my fill until they moronically cut Detective Stabler's fine-ass character.
Angela Graham
#92. But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.
Shelby Foote
#93. No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#94. Choice betrays character," I said.
"That's not true." Loring moved his finger along the
sheet as if writing his name in cursive. "Eliza, you can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#95. Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.
Anjelica Huston
#96. Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
Will Self
#97. A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.
Michael Josephson
#98. My parents had raised me to not judge a person based off the color of their skin but by the composition of their character. A man was nothing if he wasn't true to his word and honorable.
Chelle Bliss
#99. You won't hear a character's friend say this in a romantic comedy. Taylor Swift won't sing this, Eminem won't rap it, and Suzanne Collins won't write it, but it's true: just because you're "in love" with someone doesn't mean you should seriously consider marrying them.
Gary L. Thomas
#100. My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
Hailee Steinfeld
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