Haile Selassie Quotes

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

Some people should have more levels of maturity than others, but you know to have a show that's grounded, tethered to reality, if you follow a group of people for six years and you show no maturity, I think that would be inaccurate.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.