Joseph Goebbels Quotes

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Character is a perfectly educated will.

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

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

It does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year

Education is the development of power and ideal.

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

Education is soul crafting.

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.