Character That Counts Quotes

#1. There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

Louis L'Amour

#2. It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

Isaac Asimov

#4. The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

Orrin Woodward

#5. Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character.

Matthew Pearl

#6. I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

Curt Weldon

#7. The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Philip Yancey

#8. The fact is, I suppose, that it's not enough to have brains. The thing that counts is character.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. Never feel that you are alone, as someone is always be your side.

Mitch Kynock

#11. When duty calls, that is when character counts.

William Safire

#12. Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

Eddie Irvine

#13. What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

Socrates

#14. Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.

Rufus Wainwright

#15. Across the globe, one billion people live in slums: that is, one in seven human beings.

Paul Mason

#16. Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

Dean Koontz

#17. your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything. And even then. It's not

Anthony Doerr

#18. I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#19. Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

Clive Owen