Thomas Nashe Quotes

That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

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

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

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man

… democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all its threatening evils, supplies a training school for making first-class men. It is life's gymnasium..fit for freedom’s athletes… Whatever we do not attain, we at any rate attain the experiences of the fight, the hardening of the strong campaign, and throb with currents of attempt at least.

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

There's a common misconception about running for office. People think it's dreadful, morally compromising work. But I've found the opposite is true. It made a better person and a better feminist. It forced me to take a hard look at my shortcomings.

You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

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.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

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

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.