Character is much easier kept than recovered.  Thomas Paine quotes What man's mind can create, man's character can control. Thomas Alva Edison quotes The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. Thomas B. Macaulay quotes Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him. Samuel Butler quotes If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. William Makepeace Thackeray quotes If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits. William Bennett quotes It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies. William Bennett quotes The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day. William Bennett quotes Character is long-standing habit. Plutarch quotes If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish pig. Woodrow T. Wilson quotes | 
