Character is our core.
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“Reputation is the shadow. Character is the tree.”
Abraham Lincoln
Character is not just our outward display of actions that others see.
It is who we are even when the only eyes that see and only ears that hear, are GOD’S.
When we are stripped of all self importance, character is the framework that holds us up .
It is our core beliefs which affect our behavior - the “DNA” of ethical and moral traits that make up who we are.
It is the moral compass that guides our actions, and the road map to our destination.
It is the internal light which illuminates our way, in our darkest hour.
Values, sometimes called morals, develop character. Most of us learn values from our parents, at church or synagogue. But society has changed. Too often children are on their own influenced by what they see on television or on the street. Their moral compass calibrated by sheer happenstance.
Integrity, Honesty, Trustworthiness, Respect: Each is inextricably dependent on the other, and not can succeed alone.
Character is about doing the right thing because it is simply, the right thing to do.
Mrs. Figgins
Character: Quotations
“Reputation is the shadow. Character is the tree.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Character is what you are in the dark.
— Unknown
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
— Albert Einstein, Swiss-American mathematician, physicist and public philosopher (1879-1955)
Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
— Booker T. Washington, American educator and civil rights activist (1856-1915)
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)
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
— Woodrow Wilson, 28th American president (1856-1924)
To exercise good character daily is to be morally fit for life.
— Karen Hartz, CC! coordinator, CHARACTER COUNTS! in Caroline County
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900)
Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?
— Margaret Titzel
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president (1809-1865)
A person’s character is what it is. It’s a little like a marriage – only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.
— Henrik Hertzberg, 20th-century American editor and journalist
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
— Attributed to Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847-1931)
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and poet (1803-1882)
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)
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
— Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384-322 B.C.)
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)
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
— Horace Greeley, American journalist and educator (1811-1872)
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born.
— William R. Inge, American playwright (1913-1973)
If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
— William J. Bennett, author and former U.S. Secretary of Education (b. 1943)
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)
A man’s character is his fate.
— Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (c. 540-c. 475 B.C.)
One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.
— Henri Stendahl, French novelist (1783-1842)
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)
The force of character is cumulative.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and poet (1803-1882)
Not in time, place or circumstance but in the man lies success.
— James Joyce, Irish novelist (1882-1941)
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860)
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
— Beryl Markham, English adventurer and author (1902-1986)
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, novelist, playwright, scientist and philosopher (1749-1832)
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