Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind;
Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality. ---William richard Allen
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
Thoughts lead on to purposes;
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. ---johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. ---Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. ---Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. ---Euripides
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. ---I ching
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ; Independence.
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
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ---Henry Clay
Sow an act and you reap a habit.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. Henry David Thoreau
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.---Henry Clay