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

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

Character is what a man is in the dark.
Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
Dwight L. Moody

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Oswald Chambers

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch

Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
John Locke

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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