John Owen Quotes

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of the usual conditions of their lives. That's when the truth of who they are is revealed.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody says, no matter what the popular vibe is.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.