The true test of character is how we behave when we don’t know what to do.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can’t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing.
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
A man’s character is the reality of himself. His reputation is the opinion others have formed of him. Character is in him; reputation is from other people—that is the substance, this is the shadow.
The measure of a man sir, is not in money, position, station or possessions. These things mean nothing. The measure of a man is in his character, wisdom, ability, aliveness, intimacy, creativity, courage, fearlessness, perspective, independence and maturity. You seem terribly impressed with the former sir, which suggests you are seriously lacking in the latter.