We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reaso…

- Thomas Lickona

One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates …

- Thomas Lickona

Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

- Thomas Lickona

Morality is not a spectator sport.

- Thomas Lickona

Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's ev…

- Thomas Lickona

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

- Thomas Lickona

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

- Thomas Lickona

Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.

- Thomas Lickona

Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who h…

- Thomas Lickona