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Character Quotes

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Unknown

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. – Thomas B Macaulay

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.  – James D. Miles

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character.  It’s not hard.  Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.  – Unknown

Most people say that it’s the intellect which makes a great scientist.  They are wrong: it is character. – Albert Einstein.

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.  – Elbert Hubbard

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character – Albert Einstein

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have – Unknown

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power – Abraham Lincoln

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. – Stephen Covey

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming. – Jim Rohn

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! – Theodore Roosevelt

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.  – John Wooden

How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. 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

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.  – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. – Roy L Smith

Death Quotes

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mohandas Gandhi

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for. — Mohandas Gandhi

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. — Socrates

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. (June, 1944) — George S. Patton

Arthur: “Marvin, any ideas?”
Marvin: “I have a million ideas. They all point to certain death.” — Douglas Adams

If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right. From his speech at Stanford University during graduation in the spring of 2005. — Steve Jobs

“I don’t want to die now. I’ve still got a headache. I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it” — Douglas Adams

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. — Kurt Vonnegut

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. — Leonardo da Vinci

Music Quotes

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.” – Ed Gardner

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” – Plato

“Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” – Bill Cosby

“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.” – Samuel Johnson

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley

“Music is a safe kind of high.” – Jimi Hendrix

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo

Dogs Quotes

– “There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” – Ben Williams

– “The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” – Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

– “From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.” – Mabel Louise Robinson

– “Dogs are miracles with paws.” – Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

– “Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be.” – Holbrook Jackson

– “The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.” – Unknown

– “Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” – Agnes Sligh Turnbull

– “My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.” – Edith Wharton

– “We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.” – George Eliot

– “I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.” – Gilda Radner

War Quotes

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein

“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” – George Patton

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” – Jeannette Rankin

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.” – Benjamin Franklin

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?” – Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.” – Dwight Eisenhower

“It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.” – Robert E. Lee

“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” – Thomas Mann

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?” – Victor Hugo

“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” – George Washington

Success Quotes

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin

“You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” – Sven Goran Eriksson

“Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

Sports Quotes

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” – Heywood Broun

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” – George Orwell

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” – Vince Lombardi

“I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out.” – Rodney Dangerfield

“Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.” – George F. Will

“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

“Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.” – Anthony Starr

“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.” – Steve Garvey

“The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.” – Nick Seitz

Science Quotes

“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.” – Bertrand Russell

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” – Charles Darwin

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” – Hippocrates

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” – Sir William Bragg

“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.” – Herbert Hoover

“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.” – Lewis Mumford

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.” – Marie Curie

“Science is simply common sense at its best. That is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.” – Thomas Huxley