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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Sep 17, 2025
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
The best way out is always through.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.