Showing posts with label character quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character quotes. Show all posts

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
By: Mark Twain


Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
By: Martin H. Fischer


Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
By: Ezra Pound


Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
By: Abraham Flexner


GODISNOWHERE this can be read as GOD IS NO WHERE or as GOD IS NOW HERE everything depends on how do u see anything. so think positive.

By: mohit
In Wise Words

It is not what happens to you but HOW you react to it that matters .

By: akshya
In Wise Words


A Loving Sister glows like star in brothers soul.

By: shalini
In Wise Words

Care is the sweetest form of love, so wen any1 says "TAKE CARE" its as good as saying, "I'll keep u in my heart till its very last beat" .

By: rahul
In Wise Words


Life is only traveled ONCE,Today's MOMENT becomesTOMORROW's MEMORY.Enjoy every moment, good or bad, because the GIFT of LIFE is LIFE itself....

By: rohit
In Wise Words

DREAM makes all things possible.HOPES makes all things work.LOVE makes all above possbile so ALWAYS SMILE!..

By: komal
In Wise Words


The happiest pe(" ._. ")ple don't have EVERYTHING in life. They just make THE BEST of everything that life brings their way.

By: shalini
In Wise Words

When a baby born he/she will cry near by all are happy, when anyone die he/she will be plesant but near by all are cry. See how this world is unfair.

By: komal
In Wise Words


Be a person full of love and life, stay simple and be happy... When things go wrong don't go blue, Just pray and say I will get through, Always remember God Loves You!

By: akshya
In Wise Words

A smile makes us look younger. while prayers make us feel stronger. and friends.? They make us enjoy life forever .

By: komal
In Wise Words


'The way u to be happy is to make others happy'. Consider this in your whole life.

By: komal
In Wise Words

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence
By: Abraham Lincoln


The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer


One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments
By: Stefan Zweig


A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer
By: Hesketh Pearson


Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do
By: William Ellery Channing


Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify
By: Sydney J Harris


Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect
By: John Morley


No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character
By: John Morley


Of all the properties which belong to honourable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character
By: Henry Clay


You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do
By: Norman Douglas


I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
By: Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006



Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)


Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
By: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)


The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
By: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)


I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
By: Nathaniel Emmons


The character of a man is known from his conversations.
By: Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)


To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
By: Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004


One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
By: Marie Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)


I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
By: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986


Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
By: Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"


The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
By: Isabelle Eberhardt


People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
By: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)


Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
By: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"


In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
By: Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)


Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
By: Elmer G. Letterman


Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
By: Horace Greeley


The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
By: Charles R. Brown


Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
By: Dr Laura Schlessinger


A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
By: Evan Esar


Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny. -- George Dana Boardman # It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer


I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
By: Lois McMaster Bujold


There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks
By: David Lloyd George


Character matters; leadership descends from character
By: Rush Limbaugh


I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man
By: George Washington


Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist They are wrong: it is character
By: Albert Einstein


Character is power Booker T
By: Washington


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


One can acquire everything in solitude except character
By: Stendhal (Henri Beyle)