An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

22.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

23.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

25.

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.

26.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

27.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

28.

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

Solon

29.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

30.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

31.

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

Greeley, Horace

32.

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

33.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

34.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

36.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

37.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

39.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

40.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

41.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

42.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

43.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

44.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

50.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William