Character quotes

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

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

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.