* Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Sir Winston Churchill

* Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will.
Leo J. Muir

* If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I'd go with my moral principles.
Anonymous

* Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.
Jean-Paul Sartre

* In thy face I see The map of honour, truth, and loyalty
William Shakespeare

* Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade

* Character is destiny.
Heraclitus

* I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand.
Baruch Spinoza

* A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Joseph Hall

* Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?
Margaret Titzel

* It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
Herbert Samuel

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

* Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauerv

* What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

* Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
R.C. Samsel