Quotes About Character Counts

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

Orrin Woodward

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

William Safire

#3. 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

#4. You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.

Orson Scott Card

#5. I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.

Nick Frost

#6. 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

#7. We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Ray Bradbury

#8. The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Charles Hodge

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

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.

Meryl Streep

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Socrates

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

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Angela Carter

#15. 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

#16. America's promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That's one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Barack Obama

#17. Every day is a training day and every event is a training event.

James Pritchert