Big Narstie Quotes

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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.

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

Self-respect and prosperity are the most effective guardian of morals.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

...it's so hard to find men of a so high type of morals that they'll stay bought.

A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.

We should be led by principles and morals and not by men.

I am very loyal to my principles.

My moral compass is strong.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.