| Quotes
Please
use the quotations listed here as a resource. Don't
do more to teach about character, simply weave it
into what you already do. Use quotations to initiate
discussions, debates or as the cursive writing assignment.
Use quotes on character as your morning message or
place one each month in your class newsletter.
What
lies behind us and what lies before us are small
matters compared to what lies within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist,
philosopher and poet (1803-1882)
But rules cannot substitute for character.
— Alan Greenspan, chairman of the U.S. Federal
Reserve Board (b. 1926)
Character is what you are in the dark.
— Unknown
Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
— Booker T. Washington, American educator and
civil rights activist (1856-1915)
We are what we seem to be.
— Willard Gaylin, American psychiatrist (b.
1925)
Our lives teach us who we are.
— Salman Rushdie, Anglo-Indian novelist b. 1947)
If you don’t have enemies, you don’t
have character.
— Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
To exercise good character daily is to be morally
fit for life.
— Karen Hartz, CC! coordinator, CHARACTER COUNTS!
in Caroline County
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character
by his way of eating jelly beans.
— Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president (b. 1911)
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character
can control.
— Attributed to Thomas Edison, American inventor
(1847-1931)
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, American social activist, public
speaker and author (1880-1968)
The function of education is to teach one to think
intensively and to think critically... Intelligence
plus character – that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights
leader (1929-1968)
The best index to a person’s character is (a)
how he treats people who can’t do him any good,
and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight
back.
— Abigail van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman),
American newspaper advice columnist (1918-2002)
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered
up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around
with, but it can’t be ultimately changed. It’s
the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through
our veins.
— Sam Shepard, American playwright, actor and
director (b. 1943)
The measure of a man's character is what he would
do if he knew he never would be found out.
— Baron Thomas Babington Macauley, English historian
and statesman (1800-1859)
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into
conduct.
— Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and author
(1795-1881)
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
— Thomas Paine, British-born American political
activist (1737-1809)
Every man has three characters: that which he shows,
that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
— Alphonse Karr, French journalist (1808-1890)
Character is that which can do without success.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher
and poet (1803-1882)
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of
character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher
and poet (1803-1880)
(from http://www.josephsoninstitute.org/quotes/character.html)
Watch your thoughts,
for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
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