Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Thomas A. Edison

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham

Character is destiny.
Heraclitus