True Test Of Character Quotes

#1. The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

John Holt

#2. Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#3. The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.

Orrin Woodward

#4. We never ask for the bad that happens to us, but it happens. The true test of character is how we go on, what we take from it.

Michelle M. Pillow

#5. Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

Jack Gantos

#6. What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

Jonathan Powell

#8. On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

Christian Lous Lange

#9. [B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Alan Bennett

#10. The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.

James Arthur Ray

#11. Water drinkers perceive nothing but the crude and material appearance of things, while intoxication, on the contrary, dulls the eyes of the body and brightens those of the soul.

Gerard De Nerval

#12. It's easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Margaret Chase Smith

#14. The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

Lee Corso

#15. The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

John Wooden

#16. There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

Tess Gerritsen

#17. The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Helen Keller

#18. It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Imogen Cunningham

#19. True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

Napoleon Bonaparte