There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character
Henry Louis Mencken
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth.
Jacques Ellul
We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
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
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
John Burroughs
This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.
Daniel Webster
Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
Aristotle
It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
Charles Horton Cooley
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.
Lord Chesterfield
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
When you heard that a mountain was moved, believe it; but when you hear that someone changed his character do not believe it.
Arabian Proverb
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Theodore Parker
To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.
Thomas John Barnardo