Life is a quarry,
out of which we are to mould and chisel and complete a character.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You cannot dream yourself into a character;
you must hammer and forge yourself one.
-James A. Froude
When you build a house, every brick counts.
When you build a character, every thought counts.
So think constructively.
-Dadi Janki
Character is like a road we build mile by mile.
-Yogi Bhajan
Character is the result of two things,
mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
-Elbert Hubbard
A man is literally what he thinks. His character is the sum of his thoughts. -James Allen
Thought habit is character. You are what previous thinking has made you. -Henry Wood
Character building begins in our infancy,
and continues until death.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If you do not know the right laws of conduct,
you cannot form your character.
-Sivananda
Character may be manifested in the great moments,
but it is made in the small ones.
-Phillips Brooks
Character, in great and little things,
means carrying through what you feel able to do.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, like a photograph,
develops in darkness.
-Yusaf Karsh
Character is the total
of thousands of small daily strivings
to live up to the best that is in us.
-Arthur G. Trudeau
Character means the crystallization
of one's best qualities.
-Selvarajan Yesudian
Our true character silently underlies
all our words and actions,
as the granite underlies the other strata.
-Henry David Thoreau
Character is nature
in its highest form.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discipline builds character. -Sivananda
The discipline of desire
is the background of character.
-John Locke
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. -Grenville Kleiser
Building up character is building up habits.
The changing of character is the changing of habits.
Habit is second nature.
Character is first nature.
-Sivananda
Character is nothing but habit.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Character is simply habit long continued.
-Plutarch
If you create an act, you create a habit.
If you creat a habit, you create a character.
If you create a character, you create a destiny.
-Andre Maurois
Character is the habit of action
from the permanent vision of truth.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A character is a completely fashioned will.
-Novalis
A character is a complete, refined Intention.
-Novalis
Individual character is in the right
that is in strict consistence with itself.
-Friedrich von Schiller
Your character will be
what you yourself choose to make it.
-John Lubbock
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
That is how character is built.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Character develops itself in the stream of life. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
-Helen Keller
Surmounting difficulty
is the crucible that forms character.
-Tony Robbins
One can find everything in solitude
except character.
-Stendhal
Strong characters are brought out
by change in situation,
and gentle ones by permanence.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Strength of character may be learned at work
but beauty of character is learned at home.
-Henry Drummond
Force of character is cumulative.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character calls forth character.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man's character is revealed by his speech.
-Menander
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. -Benjamin Disraeli
If the true mark of a human being
is the uprightness of his body,
then the character of a man must be expressed
by an intentional actualization of this posture.
-Sato Tsuji
The maxims of men
reveal their characters.
-Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
People show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think is laughable. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How much lies in laughter:
the cipher-key, wherein we decipher the whole man.
-Thomas Carlyle
A man never shows his own character so plainly
as by his manner of portraying another's.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
When the character of a man is not clear to you,
look at his friends.
-Japanese Proverb
The measure of a man's real character
is what he would do if he knew
he would never be found out.
-Thomas Babington McCaulay
Conscience is the head of character.
-Hadra 'Ali
Character is both cause and effect.
-James Allen
Character is freedom.
-William Douglas Horden
A man's character is his fate.
-Heraclitus
Every man has three characters -
that which he exhibits,
that which he has,
and that which he thinks he has.
-Alphonse Karr
You can pitch your personality
but you build your character.
-Edwin Louis Cole
No man can climb
beyond the limitations of his own character.
-Maximilien Robespierre
What is character but the determination of incident?
What is incident but the illustration of character?
-William James
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men,
not one is so highly-prized as that of character.
-Henry Clay
Grandeur of character lies wholly in the force of the soul,
that is, is in the force of thought, moral principle, and love,
and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
-William Ellery Channing
Men of character
are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who would build their character
study what is ancient.
-Deng Ming-Dao
A good name will shine forever.
-Proverb
The regulating and beautiful arrangement
of character and action
is the art of life.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Simplicity, purity and uprightness
are the qualities which contribute most
to the moulding of our character.
-Ralph Waldo Trine
Simplicity of character
is the natural result of profound thought.
-William Hazlitt
This is the mark of a perfect character -
to pass through each day as though it were the last,
without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.
-Marcus Aurelius
The essential thing is not knowledge,
but character.
-Joseph LeConte
We do not need more knowledge,
we need more character.
-Calvin Coolidge
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character trumps genius.
-Pamela Wallin
For every step that you take in pursuit of higher knowledge,
take three steps in the perfection of your own character.
-Rudolph Steiner
To compose our character is our duty,
not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces,
but order and tranquility in our conduct.
Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
-Michel de Montaigne
Let you be known by your own character
and by your conduct and by your code of life,
rather than by your feelings, emotions and your wealth or anything else.
-Yogi Bhajan
What establishes your character is what,
in the deepest part of yourself,
you feel you are as a person, as a self.
-Dane Rudhyar
Each type of character represents not only a particular feeling
of what you are as a self,
but also a way of meeting all human relationships
and the small or big challenges of every day life.
-Dane Rudhyar
The quintessence of man is his character.
-Sivananda
Nothing can be said to belong essentially to man
but his character.
-Franz Hartmann
Character is your very being.
-Sivananda
Character is an established quality of being,
based upon the principle of absolute right.
-Christian Larson
Character is a permanent attainment.
-Christian Larson
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
-Walt Whitman
The character of a man outlasts him.
-Sivananda
The more finished the character,
the more striking is its individuality.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The formation of one's character
ought to be everyone's chief aim.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most powerful agent in character-building
is the awakening to the true self.
-Ralph Waldo Trine
The ultimate end of life
is the development of character.
-Aristotle
Happiness is not the end of life;
character is.
-Henry Ward Beecher
The whole object of the universe to us
is the formation of character.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
