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Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools. -- Thomas Lickona
One man in his time plays many parts. -- William Shakespeare
The imperative is to define what is right and do it. -- Barbara Jordan
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak. -- Paul Wellstone
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. -- T. S. Eliot
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. -- James A. Garfield
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. -- Jean Paul
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. -- Arthur Helps
Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process. -- Sai Baba
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. -- Henry Adams
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. -- Barbara Jordan
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. -- Carl Schurz
Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning. -- Anson Jones
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. -- George H. W. Bush
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. -- Jacob Bronowski
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
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. -- Louis D. Brandeis
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. -- Sam Houston
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
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. -- Charles Caleb Colton
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. -- Barbara Bush
In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. -- Wendell Willkie
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. 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 H. W. Bush
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The end of education is character -- Sathya Sai Baba
Character is the main object of education. -- Mary Wooley
Character is a wish for a perfect education. -- Novalis
Character is the most precious gift of education. -- Sai Baba
Education has for its object the formation of character. -- Herbert Spencer
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The end and aim of all education is the development of character. -- Francis Wayland Parker
Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives. -- Sai Baba
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. -- Ilya Ehrenburg
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young. -- Aristotle
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity. -- Paulo Freire
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. -- David O. McKay
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. -- Hosea Ballou
The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another. -- Mike Rowe
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character. -- David O. McKay
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. -- David O. McKay
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak. -- Suzanne Curchod
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. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education? -- Garry Trudeau
Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get. -- Dallas Willard
We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet. -- Swami Vivekananda
A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character. -- Paul Bamikole
Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified. -- Samuel Johnson
Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character. -- Michael Josephson
To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education. -- Noah Webster
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

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