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

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Rush Limbaugh

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Bette Davis

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
George W. Bush

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson

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

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og Mandino

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

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