Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

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.

Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

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.

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

Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.

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.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

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

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

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

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

Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

Character building is one of my favourite things to do.

Education is soul crafting.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.