Character Building Quotations for Today

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Henry David Thoreau

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
Lord Chesterfield

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. J. B. Gough

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Daniel Webster

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

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right path, the the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.
Joseph Le Conte

The great hope of society is individual character.
William Ellery Channing

A good name will shine forever.
Proverb 

A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night.
Jeremy Taylor