Character Education Quotes - Page 2

• Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Freedom, Blessing, People

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

  Anson Jones

  Character, Work Out, Maps

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• Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

  Sydney Smith

  Courage, Ignorance, Order

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.198

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• Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

  Aristotle

  Diversity, Mankind, Whole

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• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

  Norman Cousins

  Freedom, Responsibility, Democracies Have

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• All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

  James A. Garfield

  Government, People, Diversity

  "The Life of James Abram Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States". Book by Jonas Mills Bundy, 1881.

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• You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.

  Herbert H. Lehman

  Running, Heart, Character

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• What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

  Wayne Muller

  Kindness, Healing, What If

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• An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Equality

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• Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

  Edith Hamilton

  Responsibility, Men, Pay

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

  Sam Houston

  Honesty, Character, Men

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• Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Democratic, Nations

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Poems By Walt Whitman”, Walt Whitman

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• Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

  Marguerite Young

  Heart, Soul, Faces

  Marguerite Young (1965). “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling”

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• When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

  Willa Cather

  Kindness, People, Philanthropy

  My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)

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• Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Character, Order, Political

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

  Harold Stassen

  Home, America, Fire

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• The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.

  Mary McCarthy

  Choices, Decision, Pay

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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• Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, University of Georgia Press

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• For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

  T. S. Eliot

  Work, Poetry, Trying

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• You must look into people, as well as at them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Relationship, Men, People

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

  William Halsey

  Greatness, Men, Volunteer

  "Fictional character: Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey Jr". "The Gallant Hours", 1960.

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• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  Wendell Willkie

  Honesty, Work, Winning

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• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Character, Philanthropy

  Barbara Jordan, Elspeth D. Rostow, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (1986). “The Great Society: A Twenty Year Critique”, Univ Texas at Austin Lyndon B

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• The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Responsibility, Community

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• I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Accountability, Philanthropy, Lord

  Benjamin Franklin (19??). “The life and letters of Benjamin Franklin”

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