True Character Is Revealed Quotes

#1. It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Christopher Earle

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

Gail Carson Levine

#5. her lips made him even more desperate to convince her that they had to live.

Lucian Bane

#6. A single instant of kindness, she thought again, her heart breaking. How do we save them all, Aden? One at a time.

Nalini Singh

#7. Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ. We do not always know the path of deepest joy.

John Piper

#8. Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

Nelson Mandela

#9. My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

Judith Butler

#10. It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything to do with the other. Even more so: I think that there is almost a reaction against style, that brute ugliness somehow has been interpreted as being the way to go.

Louise Wilson

#11. In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

Rick Warren

#12. There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

Alison Goodman

#13. There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

Lord Chesterfield

#14. There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness,
health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities
waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good.

Jim Rohn

#15. Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#16. The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

#17. The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

Florence Nightingale

#18. 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

#19. 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