By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character Grenville Kleiser Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. John Howe A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity John Ballantine Gough You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James Froude Do what you know and perception is converted into character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) Self-trust is the essence of heroism Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. Norman Douglas I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. Henry Ward Beecher
US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887) Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) | 
