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  • The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  • All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

  • What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

    Taken   Wine   Character  
    Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics
  • Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

    Henry Clay (1981). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Secretary of State 1827”, p.769, University Press of Kentucky
  • You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

  • The character of a man is known from his conversations.

  • Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

    Character   Men   Suits  
  • Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

    Fun   Character   Men  
  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  • If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

    Character   Men   Failing  
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 46, 1799.
  • The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

    New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945
  • Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

  • Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

  • If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

    Character   Men   Judging  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama
  • The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

    Country   Character   Men  
    Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.423
  • You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

    Character   Golf   Men  
  • A good name is better than precious ointment.

  • A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the difference of fortune makes less difference in happiness than is vulgarly imagined; such a one does not measure out degrees of esteem according to the rent-rolls of his acquaintance. ... his internal sentiments are more regulated by the personal characters of men, than by the accidental and capricious favors of fortune.

  • You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

    "Ten Cannots". Book by William J.H. Boetcker, 1916.
  • The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.373, Modern Library
  • Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

  • Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]

    Character   Men   Judging  
    "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,
  • It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

    Sports   Jobs   Character  
  • On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

  • I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

    Trust   Hope   Truth  
    George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

    Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”
  • There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

    Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852”, p.3
  • I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

    Character   Men   Judging  
  • The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

    Real   Character   Men  
  • Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

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