Top 53 Reveals Character Quotes
#1. Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.
William Torrey Harris
#2. One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
Anne Lamott
#3. A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.
John R. Dallas Jr.
#5. I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.
Robert Webb
#6. Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
Brooke Shields
#8. You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.
Bill Courtney
#9. Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.
Orrin Woodward
#10. Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.
Jeffrey Fry
#11. It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.
Kay Granger
#12. There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#13. The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#14. It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.
Philip Jose Farmer
#15. A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
Evan Esar
#16. Religion does not define God's character God reveals it to us in His word and in person, in His Son Jesus Christ.
Jonah Books
#17. 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
#18. This is difficult to comprehend when one pauses to consider the character of Christ. Admittedly there have been many false caricatures of this Person, but an unbiased look at His life quickly reveals an individual of enormous compassion and incredible integrity.
W. Phillip Keller
#19. What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?
Aaron B. Powell
#20. Money doesn't change you, it reveals you. Money is just an enabler, whatever a person chooses to do with it is a reflection of their character.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#21. Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#22. There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#23. Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
Aristotle.
#24. Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
Cate Blanchett
#25. What's great about writing a screenplay is that the subtext of the scene, what is not said, can sometimes be more important that what is said. Again, dialogue serves two basic functions in the scene: Either it moves the story forward or it reveals information about the character.
Syd Field
#26. How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.
Tammy Bruce
#28. Skyline reveals a city's purpose and character. Oxford had its dreaming spires; Manhattan its glittering towers; Edinburgh its eccentric spikes.
Alexander McCall Smith
#30. You are like the actor who, at the end of the play, with a final word, reveals that he is a different character than the one he appeared to be playing.
Edouard Leve
#31. If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.
David Steindl-Rast
#32. I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.
Kristan Higgins
#33. Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#35. I have to remember that giving honor reveals more about my character than the character of the other person.
Lysa TerKeurst
#36. There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. the spectacle is an affirmation of appearances and an identification of all human social life with appearances. But a critique that grasps the spectacle's essential character reveals it to be a visible negation of life - a negation that has taken on a visible form.
Guy Debord
#38. I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.
Mike Sherman
#39. Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
Ronald Reagan
#40. Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.
Carlos Fuentes
#42. Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe.
Herbert Marcuse
#43. Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness ... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.
Mark Twain
#47. Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so never try to deceive anyone with mere words. Word/Talk is cheap but character is key. It costs nothing to be authentic. Learn to be a man or woman of substance!
Kemi Sogunle
#48. No one likes to lose. It is how you handle the loss that reveals your character.
Gail Ranstrom
#49. It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#50. A man's character reveals itself most clearly when he makes a choice under pressure.
Dan Millman
#51. How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
John Wooden
#53. Sport does not just build character, it reveals it.
George F. Will
