| 433 | For man character is destiny [Heraclitus] |
| 541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
| 540 | The way you spend your time will form your character [Antiphon] |
| 126 | We should ask what sort of people we want to be [Socrates] |
| 118 | I would rather be a victim of crime than a criminal [Plato] |
| 5222 | A person of good character sees the truth about what is actually fine and pleasant [Aristotle] |
| 4394 | People develop their characters through the activities they pursue [Aristotle] |
| 5239 | When people speak of justice they mean a disposition of character to behave justly [Aristotle] |
| 4386 | Character can be heroic, excellent, controlled, uncontrolled, bad, or brutish [Aristotle, by Urmson] |
| 5250 | The three states of character to avoid are vice, 'akrasia' and brutishness [Aristotle] |
| 4379 | It is very hard to change a person's character traits by argument [Aristotle] |
| 5874 | Character virtues (such as courage) are of the non-rational part, which follows the rational part [Aristotle] |
| 5875 | Character (éthos) is developed from habit (ethos) [Aristotle] |
| 22516 | Character is shown by what is or is not enjoyed, and virtue chooses the mean among them [Aristotle] |
| 22517 | We judge character not by their actions, but by their reasons for actions [Aristotle] |
| 14517 | We value our own character, whatever it is, and we should respect the characters of others [Epicurus] |
| 7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
| 7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
| 13305 | Character is ruined by not looking back over our pasts, since the future rests on the past [Seneca] |
| 13554 | True greatness is never allowing events to disturb you [Seneca] |
| 23324 | In the Discourses choice [prohairesis] defines our character and behaviour [Epictetus, by Frede,M] |
| 20480 | There is not much point in only becoming good near the end of your life [Montaigne] |
| 20957 | We don't choose our characters, yet we still claim credit for the actions our characters perform [Schelling] |
| 21484 | A man's character can be learned from a single characteristic action [Schopenhauer] |
| 24126 | We contain multitudes of characters, which can brought into the open [Nietzsche] |
| 7191 | What does not kill us makes us stronger [Nietzsche] |
| 22871 | The good people are those who improve; the bad are those who deteriorate [Dewey] |
| 23896 | We see our character as a restricting limit, but also as an unshakable support [Weil] |
| 23893 | We don't see character in a single moment, but only over a period of time [Weil] |
| 23894 | The concept of character is at the centre of morality [Weil] |
| 23895 | We modify our character by placing ourselves in situations, or by attending to what seems trivial [Weil] |
| 20764 | In becoming what we want to be we create what we think man ought to be [Sartre] |
| 8070 | It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe] |
| 22373 | People can act out of vanity without being vain, or even vain about this kind of thing [Foot] |
| 22495 | Someone is a good person because of their rational will, not their body or memory [Foot] |
| 24010 | An admirable human being should have certain kinds of emotional responses [Williams,B] |
| 23279 | It is important that a person can change their character, and not just be successive 'selves' [Williams,B] |
| 23280 | Kantians have an poor account of individuals, and insist on impartiality, because they ignore character [Williams,B] |
| 5123 | Maybe there is no such thing as character, and the virtues and vices said to accompany it [Harman] |
| 5124 | If a person's two acts of timidity have different explanations, they are not one character trait [Harman] |
| 5125 | Virtue ethics might involve judgements about the virtues of actions, rather than character [Harman] |
| 8043 | Characters are the masks worn by moral philosophies [MacIntyre] |
| 23099 | It is said that if an agent is not autonomous then their evil actions don't reflect on their character [Kekes] |
| 24002 | We over-estimate the role of character traits when explaining behaviour [Goldie] |
| 24004 | Psychologists suggest we are muddled about traits, and maybe they should be abandoned [Goldie] |
| 24003 | Character traits are both possession of and lack of dispositions [Goldie] |