Character isn't all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..

In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

Your reputation is in the hands of others That s what the reputation is You can t control that The only thing you can control is your characte

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.

You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.

...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...

She, the clear heart'ed soul shall show a small crack (in heart) as clearly as the equally transparent, but dirty rogue can cleverly hide it.

I must be a great leader because many people follow me. Most of the people are police officers, if that gives you any indication of my character.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.