Character: The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own
life, is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion, writer
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested
by the praise he receives.
Proverbs 27:21
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James Michener, novelist
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one
thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley, newspaper editor, reformer
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the
temporary gains.
Wendell L. Willkie, politician
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he
acts when he loses money.
New England proverb
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton, statesman
Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.
Arsene Houssaye, french writer