There is a good side and a bad side to most people, and in accordance with your own character and disposition you will bring out one of them and the other will remain a sealed book to you.
Character Quotes
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us.
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.
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
The true test of character is to deal with others kindly from one day to the next. It is not so difficult to rise to the best of one’s being when matters of great moment are at stake. It is very difficult indeed to rise each morning with a kind heart.
Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye’s damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you’re quite decent chap – Well tis a feather in your cap.
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.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and the person which at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real me? All of them, or none?
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
