"Sports do not build character. They reveal it." - Haywood Hale Broun, quoted in James A. Michener's Sports in America

"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own." - Charles de Gaulle

"Character is destiny." - Heraclitus, fragment

"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." - Alphonse Karr

"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

"Character is what a man is in the dark." - Dwight L. Moody, quoted in William R. Moody's D.L. Moody

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." - Thomas Paine

"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards." - Saskya Pandita

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child." - Alexander Pope

"Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed." - Cavett Robert

"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character." - Sivananda

"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business." - William Makepeace Thakeray

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." - Mark Twain, Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims

"Character is that which can do without success." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Uncollected Lectures

"Talent develops in quiet,
Character in the torrent of the world."
- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Torquato Tasso

"Character is simply habit long continued." - PLUTARCH, Morals

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." - Benfield, John