TODAYS QUOTES ON CHARACTER

[prasanna]

Quotations: Character

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

Another man's soul is darkness.
— Russian proverb

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, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

— Theodore Roosevelt, American adventurer and 26th president (1858-1919)

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)

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

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. presid


TO QUOTE MAHATHMA GANTHI


"IF WEALTH IS LOST NOTHING IS LOST

IF  HEALTH IS LOST  SOMETHING LOST

IF CHARACTER IS LOST EVERYTHING LOST"

[tourbi]

Thank you.  

[prasanna]

hai dear tourbi,

thanks for lovely Ganesha

with love,
prasanna