Character Education Quotes

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle," he said. "We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. ~ George W. Bush

The purpose of education should be character-building. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ~ Leonard Woolf

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. ~ Hosea Ballou

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 person underneath. ~ Marian Anderson

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free. ~ John W. Gardner

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning. ~ Anson Jones

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. ~ Jane Austen

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process. ~ Sai Baba

Reading leads to good character development. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

Education has for its object the formation of character. ~ Herbert Spencer

We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to see us educate the soul, and not just the mind. The result would be a person who could be in the world creatively, make good friendships, live in a place he loved, do work that is rewarding, and make a contribution to the community. People say that the word "educate" means to "draw out" a person's potential. But I like the "duc" - part in the middle of it. To be educated is to become a duke, a leader, a person of stature and color, a presence and a character. ~ Thomas Moore

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. ~ William Halsey

I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife. I call education not that which is made up of the shreds and patches of useless arts, but that which inculcates principles, polishes taste, regulates temper, cultivates reason, subdues the passions, directs the feelings, habituates to reflection, trains to self-denial, and, more especially, that which refers all actions, feelings, sentiments, tastes, and passions, to the love and fear of God. ~ Hannah More

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without any quality of persons, some must be free, some serves, some rulers, some subjects. ~ Martin Luther

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people. ~ Timothy Thomas Fortune

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. ~ Henry Adams

When my brother, ... , was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned man, was always regretting the fact: 'Just my luck!' he would say. 'What a pity she was not born a man!' But then I gradually realized that people were saying 'It's bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good,' and since I have avoided writing the simplest character. ~ Murasaki Shikibu

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

I make honorable things pleasant to children. A teacher from Sparta ~ David Brooks

Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back. ~ Matthew McConaughey

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible ~ Barack Obama

First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise, it just becomes long and rambling, indulgent. So I think you need both, frankly. ~ Melissa McCarthy

Success comes from patience and passion. ~ Debasish Mridha

Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.' For military dependents school is literally a non-stop revolving door of old and new friends. ~ Tucker Elliot

I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine. ~ Jeri Ryan

I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I'd do, I don't know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously. ~ Chris Pine

God is the greatest Teacher. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I don't know what's going on, but I really like it." And you really didn't know what to make of a lot of people, and now it's changed and people aren't really talking about that. Now it's like you're watching West Wing or Friends, you know the characters and you're like, "What in the world is going to happen?" ~ Alex Graves

For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity. ~ Jules Henry

Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble. ~ Aristotle.

The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end. ~ Michael Boatman

I am a she. The mask is a he, or is actually gender-neutral. People love the character. ~ K. Guillory

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives. ~ Christopher Bollen

The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it. ~ Mia Kirshner

I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women. ~ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

The Da Jing street market is little more than a few narrow intersections, barely six blocks long. But for a visitor, it is a living, breathing education in Shanghai cuisine, a style distinguished by its thick savory sauces spiked with sugar and soy sauce. ~ Evan Osnos

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~ Pamela Anderson

This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free. Has a chance. It's difficult, but we must do it. ~ Boris Nemtsov

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself. ~ G.I. Gurdjieff

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified. ~ Sheridan Smith

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents. ~ Betty Hart

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. ~ Richard Eder

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. ~ Zhuangzi

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity. ~ Joseph De Maistre

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance. ~ T.H. White

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them. ~ Paul Auster

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that. ~ Vic Tayback

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. ~ Steven Spielberg

What's the return on investment of college? What's the return on investment of having children, spending time with friends, listening to music, reading a book? The things that are most worth doing are worth doing for their own sake. Anyone who tells you that the sole purpose of education is the acquisition of negotiable skills is attempting to reduce you to a productive employee at work, a gullible consumer in the market, and a docile subject of the state. What's at stake, when we ask what college is for, is nothing less than our ability to remain fully human. ~ William Deresiewicz

For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life. ~ Milo Ventimiglia

I went from escaping into books to extracting things from them, from being inspired by books to trying to do things that inspired me - many of which I first encountered in stories. I went from wishing I were like a character in books to being a character in my books. I went from reading books to wrestling with them to writing them, all the while still learning from what I read. The ~ Pamela Paul

Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative. ~ Matt Chandler

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character. ~ Hill Harper

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character. ~ Leonard Cohen

I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw. ~ Jeff Lindsay

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you. ~ Scott Bakula

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character. ~ Allan Boesak