Definitions of Character

The complex of mental and ethical traits marking and often individualizing a person, group or nation … moral excellence and firmness.

Merriam-Webster

Good character consists of under-standing, caring about and acting upon core ethical values.

Character Education Partnership

The disposition to live ethically in a coherent way over time.

Harvard Center for Ethics and the Professions

Good character demands more from us than an intellectual commitment, heartfelt desire, or mechanical fulfillment of responsibilities. It requires virtues, those habits of the head, heart, and hand that enable us to know the good, love the good, and do the good.

Kevin Ryan and Karen Bohlin