The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Rejection reveals your character.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Plot is character revealed by action.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.