Jacques d'Amboise Quotes

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche.

At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of gritty work experiences.

I have become a nicer person after every film I have done.

I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.

Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.