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  • A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

    Character   Men   Rights  
    Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.7
  • Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

    Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.
  • The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

    Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.134
  • 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, Jon Krakauer (2000). “High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places”, p.274, Simon and Schuster
  • You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

    Character   Animal   Men  
  • True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

  • people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character

    Chad Kultgen (2009). “The Lie: A Novel”, Harper Perennial
  • The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

    Voltaire, Tobias George Smollett, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901). “Voltaire: Index to His Works, Genius and Character”
  • It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

  • 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 XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

  • Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

    Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press
  • In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

    Book   Character   Needs  
  • It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

  • 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.

    Fall   Teaching   Believe  
  • I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

    "Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence".
  • Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

  • 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.

    Art   Character   Drawing  
    Camille Pissarro, John Rewald (1963). “Camille Pissarro”, Harry N Abrams Inc
  • What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.

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

    Character   Men   Victory  
    Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.202, Penguin
  • 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 (2013). “At The Master's Feet”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!

    Anne Frank (1993). “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, Bantam
  • 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.

    "The Exception to the Rulers". Book by Amy Goodman and David Goodman, 2004.
  • 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!

    Character   Oil   Promise  
    Hosea Ballou (1848). “A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; and Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness”, p.57
  • True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.

    "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1998.
  • Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

    Character   Power   Men  
    Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3876, Delphi Classics
  • To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

    Character   Golf   Men  
    P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.130, The Floating Press
  • No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

    Character   Long   Lapses  
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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