“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
“Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.”
“Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.”
“Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.”
“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”
“Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.”
“To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.”
“Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.”
“There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.”
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”
“Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.”
“We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.”
“Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.”
“If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.”
“The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.”
“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.”
“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”
“If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil.”
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
“Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.”
“Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.”
“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.”
“To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.”
“No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.”
“My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.”
“Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.”