Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. There the affections are trained. There the gentle life reaches us, the true heaven life.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
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.