A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
-- Dale Carnegie

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-- Helen Keller

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
-- Author Unknown

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
-- J. C. Watts

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Character is simply habit long continued.
-- Plutarch

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
-- Joan Didion

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

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
-- Booker T. Washington

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.
-- Rita Mero

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
-- Anne Frank

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
-- Elmer G. Letterman

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
-- Charles Reade

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
-- Abigail Van Buren

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
-- Isabelle Eberhardt

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
-- John W. Holt, Jr.

The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it.
-- Author Unknown

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
-- Author Unknown

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
-- James A. Froude

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