* A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock.
C. Simmons

* You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
James D. Miles

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

* Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

* Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.
Robert Freeman

* 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 Adams Keller

* Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.
Robert Quillen

* The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey

* The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born.
William R. Inge

* Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

* Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fibre.
Dr. Frank Crane

*You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Ronald Reagan

* Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him.
Anonymous

* Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
Horace Greeley

* Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

* Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

* Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr