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.

Rohn, Jim

17.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

18.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

20.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

22.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

23.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

24.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

25.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

26.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

27.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

28.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

29.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

30.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

31.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

35.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

36.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

37.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

38.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

39.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

41.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

42.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

43.

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

44.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

45.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

46.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

47.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

48.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman