Character Quotes

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

J. K. Rowling

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

Kurt Vonnegut

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Anne Frank

"We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet."

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

Bob Talbert

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."

Karl Menninger

"Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."

"The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise. Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers."

"Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

Jim Henson

"Literacy is not the end of education or even the beginning."

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

"The ideal of all education, all training, should be this man-making."

"Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual."

"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."

John Ruskin

"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."

John Green

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

Bo Bennett

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Character is power."

"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

Rudyard Kipling

"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life."

Chris Evert