“Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”
Bernard Montgomery, British Field Marshall

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

“Character is destiny.”
Heraclitus

“Character is power.”
Booker T. Washington

“Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.”
Orison Sweet Marden

“Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.”
J. Howe

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Abraham Lincoln

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

“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”
Japanese Proverb

“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.”
Elmer G. Letterman

“Every person in America has done or said something that would keep him or her from being president. Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ‘character issues.’”
P.J. O’Rourke

“… in our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.”
P.J. O’Rourke

“Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.”
Unknown

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
Steven Weinberg

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson