Character Forming Quotes

#1. The difference between "active" and "busy" is that the former includes reflection and is directed, whereas the busy life feels out of control and does not seem purposeful or meaningful.

Robert J. Wicks

#2. At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

Eddie Perez

#3. If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

John Marshall

#4. Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead.

Ellen Hopkins

#5. I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. [I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends.]

Amy Poehler

#6. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

#7. Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#8. Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#9. Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

#10. Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

Charles Lamb

#11. As far as executing work is concerned, you do it all in order. You do it in contractual order. There's no overlap, it's just continuation of your ordinary work. You move from one project into another.

William Monahan

#12. Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

John Stuart Mill

#13. Very often God's will for you will be "I want you to decide," because decision making is an indispensable part of character formation. God is primarily in the character-forming business, not the circumstance-shaping business.

John Ortberg

#14. It is the present living generation that gives character and spirit to the next. Hence the paramount importance of accomplished and energetic teachers in forming the taste the manners and the character of the coming age.

Alexander Campbell

#15. Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Jim Rohn

#16. Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend ...

Charlotte Mason

#17. As the young have discovered, the secret divinity of the twentieth century is Science. But Science is incapable of forming character. The more people talk of human sciences, the less effect human sciences have on man.

Bruce Chatwin

#18. The great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great, because they developed the faculty of creative imagination.

Napoleon Hill

#19. Any system of education ... which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

Noah Webster

#20. I never intended to become a writer.

Richard Selzer

#21. I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished.

Emily Bronte

#22. One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

Tamora Pierce

#23. While determination builds character, quitting is habit forming.

Frank Sonnenberg

#24. But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay

John Buchan

#25. The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#26. Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Aristotle.

#27. Prayer is, above all, a means of forming character. It combines freedom and power with service and love. What

Dallas Willard

#28. We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

Ernestine Rose