"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

"What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes,
he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
— A.A. Milne

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. "
— Ronald Reagan

"I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
— Paul McCartney

"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Once a month, some women act like men act all the time."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life."
— Terry Goodkind (Confessor)

"If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world."
— Chinese Proverb

"My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour."
— Jim Butcher (Fool Moon)

"Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character."
— Harry S. Truman

"Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit.
It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win."
— Jean Webster (Daddy Long Legs)

"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."
— Hubert Humphrey

"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good."
— Ann Landers

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

"Character is plot, plot is character."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."
— Socrates

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
— James A. Michener

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
— Socrates

"There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel."
— Charles Baxter (Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction)

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’."
— John Burroughs

"To measure the man, measure his heart."
— Malcolm Forbes

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
— Edmund Burke (Reflections On The Revolution In France)

"Men of genius are admired, me of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted."
— Alfred Alder

"A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities."
— Charles de Gaulle

"In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective. "
— Mike Dooley

"Character is the result of two things:mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
— Elbert Green Hubbard

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
— Frank Outlaw

"Character is not made by crisis. It is only exhibited."
— Robert Freeman

"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain. "
— Mildred W. Struven

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
— Orson Rega Card

"Times will change for the better when you change.
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— Maxwell Maltz

"Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him."
— Omar N. Bradley

"It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character."
— Michelle Richmond

"Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputatiojn is. You can't control that. the only thing you can control is your character."
— Wayne W. Dyer

"Thought creates character."
— Annie Bessant

"Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character."
— Hugh B. Brown

"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp pf action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."
— General Charles DeGaule

"Character is just an invention.... It is the self-fulfilling prophecy that guides our lives... and the longer we live with it the more boxed in we are by the rapidly diminishing variedness of our imagined selves. What we can't ever accept is that we might never know who we are."
— Kamila Shamsie from Broken Verses