Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim Rohn

Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Alexander Pope

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
Henry Miller

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine

Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell

Character is power.
Booker T. Washington

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington

Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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?
Chuck Palahniuk

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey

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