“To have character is to be big enough to take life on.”
“Character matters; leadership descends from character.”
“Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
“Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.”
“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.”
“Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.”
“Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.”
“Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.”
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
“The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.”
“Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.”
“The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
“Do what you know and perception is converted into character.”
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”
“Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.”
“There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.”
“Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.”
“Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.”
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
“Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.”
“They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.”
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
“Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.”
“Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.”
“While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.”
“The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
“The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.”
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”