You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
-Napoleon Hill

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-Anna Freud

It's not what a man is worth, but the worthiness of the man.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
-Henry Ward Beecher

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.
-David Thomas

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
-Solon

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
-Japanese Proverb

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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

-Woodrow T. Wilson

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
-Unknown Author

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 consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
-James A. Michener

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.
-John Luther

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
-James Russell Lowell

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
-Elbert Hubbard

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
-Leo Aikman

To measure the man, measure his heart.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
-Cicero

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
-William Penn

It is not the mountains that we conquer, but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary

Men should be what they seem.
-William Shakespeare

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

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
-Albert Einstein

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
-Aristotle

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
-Chinese Proverb

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

Helen Keller