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

18.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

19.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

20.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

21.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

23.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

25.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

26.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

27.

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

28.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

29.

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

30.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

32.

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

33.

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

34.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

35.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

36.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

37.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

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.