Thomas Lickona quotes

“Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.”
-- Thomas Lickona

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“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

Source : Thomas Lickona (2009). “Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility”, p.51, Bantam

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“Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.”
-- Thomas Lickona

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“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.”
-- Thomas Lickona

Source : Thomas Lickona (2004). “Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.”
-- Thomas Lickona

Source : Thomas Lickona (2012). “Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years”, p.84, Bantam

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“Morality is not a spectator sport.”
-- Thomas Lickona

Source : Kevin Ryan, Thomas Lickona (1992). “Character Development in Schools and Beyond”, p.356, CRVP

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“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“I'm a character actor.”

“Money is good, love is wealth.”

“Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but ten years is enough. Ten years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.”

“The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.”

“The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”

Source : Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.

“I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.”

“I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.”

“Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.”