Character Counts

COMMENTARY: What Is Character? 751.2

by Michael Josephson on November 28, 2011

in Commentaries, The Nature of Character

OBSERVATION: Character is destiny. – Heraclitus

by Michael Josephson on November 28, 2011

in Odds & Ends, Quotes, Observations

QUOTE: Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln

by Michael Josephson on November 28, 2011

in Odds & Ends, Quotes, Observations

QUOTE: Character is revealed by how you behave when you think no one is looking or when you think you won’t get caught.

by Michael Josephson on November 28, 2011

in Odds & Ends, Quotes, Observations

QUOTE: Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. – Michael Josephson

by Michael Josephson on November 28, 2011

in Odds & Ends, Quotes, Observations

QUOTE: Good character is ethics in action.

by Michael Josephson on November 28, 2011

in Odds & Ends, Quotes, Observations

WORTH READING: THE ASPEN DECLARATION. In July 1992, the Josephson Institute of Ethics hosted a summit in Aspen, Colorado bringing together ethicists, educators and youth-service professionals to identify shared ethical values that could be the foundation of character education programs. The result was the Aspen Declaration, the seminal document for the CHARACTER COUNTS! movement which presently engages about 7 million children and families worldwide. (click to see the Declaration)

by Michael Josephson on November 28, 2011