Character Education Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
— Jacob Bronowski
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they…
— Barbara Bush
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We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
— George H. W. Bush
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America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to…
— George H. W. Bush
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the…
— Marian Anderson
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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
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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…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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One man in his time plays many parts.
— William Shakespeare
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
— James A. Garfield
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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…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
— Arthur Helps
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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…
— Sam Houston
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
— Barbara Jordan
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
— Barbara Jordan
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
— Jean Paul
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
— Carl Schurz
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Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
— Paul Wellstone
Who Wrote These Character Education Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Character Education Quotes as follows: