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.

17.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

18.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

22.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

23.

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

24.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

25.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

Peter The Great

30.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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.

32.

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

Freeman, Robert

33.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

35.

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

36.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

37.

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

38.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

39.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

40.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Collins, Marva

42.

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

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

45.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

46.

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

47.

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

Crisp, Quentin

48.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.