Siobhan Fallon Hogan Quotes

Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

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

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.