Character Education Quotes

• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Character, Process

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• 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.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. To help them reach their full potential and live with integrity and pride, we must teach our children to be kind, responsible, honest, and self-disciplined. These important values are first learned in the family, but all of our citizens have an obligation to support parents in the character education of our children

  George W. Bush

  Children, Integrity, Character

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  People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

  George Matthew Adams

  Success, Encouragement, Character

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Life, Friendship, Family

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

  Thomas Lickona

  School, Character, Caring

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

  Laozi

  Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

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• You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

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• 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

  Gratitude, Appreciate, Giving

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• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  Barbara Jordan

  Responsibility, Common, Share

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

  Paul Wellstone

  Integrity, Inspiration, Character

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• 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

  Basketball, Weakness, Dull

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• 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

  Love, Peace, Stars

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Character, Imagination, Independence

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther

  Men, Light, Creative

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Character, Kwanzaa, Architect

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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

  Jean Paul

  Life, Success, Character

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

  Leonard Woolf

  Character, Men, Effort

  Leonard Woolf (1939). “Barbarians Within and Without”

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• Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Wise, Gratitude

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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