Lickona Quotes

#1. 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 reason.

Thomas Lickona

#2. Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

Antonio Machado

#3. We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

Robert Duvall

#4. Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now.

James Thurber

#5. Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

Mason Cooley

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

Thomas Lickona

#7. 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

#8. A fancy car and hot girl is the dream of every loser male, while a rich handsome man is the dream of every bitch.

Eyden I.

#9. It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows our hearts and understands the varying circumstances and complexities of our lives.

Sheri Dew

#10. Sometimes the wind will take you, or sometimes the wind will carry you.

Anthony Liccione

#11. What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?
How much of recollection is invention?
Whose invention?

Jeanette Winterson

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

Thomas Lickona

#13. A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

Henry Ford

#14. 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 events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.

Thomas Lickona

#15. I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

Stephanie Laurens

#16. Morality is not a spectator sport.

Thomas Lickona

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

Thomas Lickona

#18. He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

Samantha Smith

#19. 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 urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.

Thomas Lickona