| "Everyone tries to define this thing called character. It's not hard. character is doing what's right when nobody's looking." »J. C. Watts |
| "Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow." »Elias Boudinot |
| "Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him." »Cicero |
| "Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment." »Anne Besant |
| "Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny." »Tryon Edwards |
| "It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune..." »Samuel Smiles |
| "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." »John Wooden |
| "Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable." »Anonymous |
| "Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny." »Charles Reade |
| "Sow an act...reap a habit Sow a habit...reap a character Sow a character...reap a destiny." »George Dana Boardman |
| "character is what you are when no one is looking." »Unknown |
| "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." »H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
| "character is what can do without success." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "character is power." »Booker T. Washington |
| "character is what you are in the dark." »Dwight Lyman Moody |
| "A rich man has no need of character." »Hebrew Proverb |
| "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "One can acquire everything in solitude except character." »Stendhal |
| "A man's character is his fate." »Heraclitus |
| "One can acquire everything in solitude - except character." »Marie Henri Beyle |
| "character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." »James Albert Michener |
| "The character of a man is known from his conversations." »Menander |
| "Poverty is the schoolmaster of character." »Antiphanes |
| "character is much easier kept than recovered." »Thomas Paine |
| "Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny." »Patrick Overton |
| "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." »John Wooden |
| "Education has for its object the formation of character." »Herbert Spencer |
| "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." »Japanese Proverb |
| "The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." »John Holt |
| "Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at." »Johann von Goethe |
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