Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.
-Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

Character is the salesperson’s stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn’t go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.
-George M. Adams

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
-David Bailey

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
-Bo Bennett, "Year to Success"

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.
-Helen P. Blavatsky

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
-Charles R. Brown

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day."
-Albert Camus

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-Dale Carnegie

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
-Agatha Christie

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
-Confucius "To measure the man, measure his heart."
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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

To exercise good character daily is to be morally fit for life.
-Karen Hartz, "CHARACTER COUNTS!" in Caroline County

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny — it is the light that guides your way.
-Heraclitus

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
-John Holt

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
-Elbert Hubbard

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
-Helen Keller

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.