“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”— Abraham Lincoln, twitter.com
“Your true test of character is revealed in your words and actions when no one is looking.”— Tony Robbins, twitter.com
“Great character. The way a guy will truly judge you and the relationship is not necessarily based on when things are going well in your life. It’s when things aren’t going very well and how you react to those things. So having great character means you have a strong sense of self and you have a stro…”— Adam LoDolce, huffingtonpost.com
“My least favorite received idea about writing is that one must find one's voice, as if it's there inside you, ready to be turned on like a player piano. Like character, its very existence depends on interaction with the world.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped…”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”— Joan Didion, goodreads.com
“It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“Out of massive suffering emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”— Khalil Gibran, purposefairy.com
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“His honesty offended others, but he liked to provoke people to see what came out of them in moments of anger.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.”— Bryant McGill, amazon.com
“The temperance of [a] response to raking criticism, the readiness to seize what was just in it and to throw the husks away without undue friction or resentment or los of friendship—these show a kind of character which if it became general could change the course of human affairs.”— Brand Blanshard, amazon.com