Quotes About Molding Character

#1. Being a mom is more than being cook, chauffeur, maid, counselor, doctor, referee, disciplinarian, etc. (just to name a few). It's about molding character, building confidence, nurturing, training, and guiding.

Ginger Plowman

#2. Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Desiderius Erasmus

#3. My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

John Ruskin

#4. The journey itself IS the reward. NOT the destination or future event.

Matthew Donnelly

#5. You're my hope for the future and my call to be a better man and I do hope one day you'll be my wife.

Noelle Adams

#6. Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Aristotle.

#7. As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that's nice, we're also human beings.

Sasha Grey

#8. I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

Stephen Hawking

#9. Only the English created a new England, settled not by subjects of the Crown resolved to live beyond the seas, but by pioneers and builders in a land of new promise.

Stephen W. Sears

#10. You can tell more about a person in 60 seconds on Twitter than you can by reading a one page bio, if you excite them.

Joy Cook

#11. The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

Albert Bandura

#12. Who knows what any of those people or fish would do in our shoes?" Violet said. "It's impossible to know.

Lemony Snicket

#13. Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Billy Graham

#14. When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

George Shearing

#15. Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.

Madeleine L'Engle

#16. Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

Eckhart Tolle

#17. Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. I don't think there's any point in meeting anybody who doesn't like music.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#19. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.

Sigurd F. Olson

#20. Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

Patrick Rothfuss