Lickona T Quotes & Sayings

I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. — Quentin Tarantino

Morality is not a spectator sport. — Thomas Lickona

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

Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own. — Audie Murphy

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

Gratitude opens our eyes to miracles that surround us. Life's a miracle and a gift. Take every breath in gratitude — D. Denise Dianaty

My lord," came Daisy's anxious voice, delaying him briefly. "You will find her, won't you?" "Yes," he said without hesitation. "And then I'm going to strangle her. — Lisa Kleypas

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

Friendship is powerful, unique and always a comfortable thing to have. — Euginia Herlihy

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

Woman's at best a contradiction still. — Alexander Pope

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act. — Lance Bass

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

Insofar as it is possible to divide people in categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity.Every Frenchman is different. But all actors are similar. — Milan Kundera

I want to live in a world where 'normal' is an insult. — Misha Collins

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. — Gary Chapman

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

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world. — Tony McCoy

Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself. — Pearl S. Buck

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. — Thomas Lickona

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

So you finally made Naoko yours,' I heard myself telling him. 'Oh well, she was yours to begin with. — Haruki Murakami