Rich Mullins Quotes

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

It's not always about getting better on the basketball court. This game teaches you how to become a better person as well. It pushes you into the team concept.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

God uses his Word, people and circumstances to mold us. All three are indispensable for character development. God's word provides the truth we need to grow, God's people provide the support we need to grow, and circumstances provide the environment we need to grow.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

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

It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.

What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.