A great character will always make you more attractive than someone who has good face but no substance. Beauty catches the attention but character catches the heart.

Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesia

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter. 

- Nicolas Sparks