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

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

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

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

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

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

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

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

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

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