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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.
- Limbaugh, Rush

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
- Santayana, George

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
- James, Henry

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
- Hemingway, Ernest

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Edwards, Tryon

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
- Covey, Stephen R.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- Wooden, John

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
- Maurois, Andre

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

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.
- Unknown, Source

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.
- Unknown, Source

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
- Beecher, Henry Ward

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- Allen, James

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
- Pirandello, Luigi

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
- Samsel, R. C.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.
- Luther, John

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.
- Thoreau, Henry David

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
- Covey, Stephen R.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
- Wilson, Woodrow T.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
- Locke, John

The person who builds a character makes foes.
- Young

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
- Voltaire

Habits change into character.
- Ovid

The history of mankind is his character.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
- Macleod, Iain

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
- Cobden, Richard

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
- Cicero, Marcus T.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
- Plato

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
- George, David Lloyd

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
- Stendhal, Henri B.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
- Wooden, John

Style is the image of character.
- Gibbon, Edward

Character is more important than intelligence for success.
- Beaux, Gilberte

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
- Syrus, Publilius

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
- Bruyere, Jean De La

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
- Paul, Jean

The highest qualities of character must be earned.
- Abbott, Lyman

Character is victory organized.
- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
- Chesterfield, Lord

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

 Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
- Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
- Hay, Colin

Man's character is his fate.
- Heraclitus

A man's character is his guardian divinity.
- Heraclitus

Character is our destiny.
- Heraclitus

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
- Hill, Napoleon

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
- Hume, David

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
- Levant, Oscar

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
- Lubbock, Sir John

Character is what you are in the dark.
- Moody, Dwight L.

A character is a completely fashioned will.
- Novalis

Character development is the aim of education.
- O'Shea

Character is much easier kept than recovered.
- Paine, Thomas

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
- Parkhurst , Charles H.

Character is simply habit long continued.
- Plutarch