Category Detail for Character (8 Quotes)

  Author Category Subject Content
1 Confucius General Character When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
2 Goethe General Character Talent is formed in stillness, character in the world's torrent.
3 Helen Keller General Character Character is like the fire within the flint - latent until it is struck out of the stone. Obeserving the flint stone, who would think it contained the possibility of light? And so it is with the dark experiences of life. When they are met with courage, they give out sparks of spiritual light.
4 Martin Luther King Jr General Character The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
5 Japanese Proverb Politics Character When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
6 Unknown Politics Character The measure of a real man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
7 Thomas Paine Politics Character Character is much easier kept than recovered.
8 Nathaniel Hawthorn Politics Character No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.