Quotes on Character Education

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

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

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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.

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

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

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.