Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 169 Character quotesCharacter QuotesCharacter Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.~ Bruno Bettelheim In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.~ Ambrose Bierce You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.~ William Boetcker Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.~ Elias Boudinot Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?~ Robert Browning All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.~ Buddha Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.~ Edmund Burke The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.~ Edmund Burke Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.~ Thomas Carlyle Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.~ Thomas Carlyle Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.~ Otis Chandler Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.~ William Ellery Channing Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.~ Mary Ellen Chase An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.~ Winston Churchill Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.~ Arthur C. Clarke Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.~ Henry Clay Government schools can't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic -- why should we trust them to teach morality, respect, and character? If public education does for ethics what it's done for learning, we'll end up with a generation of immoral, disrespectful, and characterless students.~ Steve Dasbach Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.~ Étienne de la Boétie We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.~ Charles-Louis De Secondat If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.~ Alexis de Tocqueville Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print