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

20.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

21.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

22.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

23.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

24.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

25.

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

26.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

27.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

30.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

31.

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

Euripides

32.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

33.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

35.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

36.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

37.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

39.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

40.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

42.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

43.

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

44.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

45.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

46.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

47.

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

48.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

49.

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

50.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons