During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

22.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

24.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

25.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

26.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

27.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

28.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

29.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

30.

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

31.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

33.

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.

Buren, Abigail Van

34.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

35.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

36.

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

37.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

38.

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

39.

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

Chambers, Oswald

40.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

41.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

42.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

43.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

44.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

45.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

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

Euripides

48.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

49.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

50.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.