Plato Quotes

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

I've been so impressed with the kinds of thoughtful questions that I've gotten from young people, from Girl Scouts, from teenagers.

You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

Let's go back, back to the Beginning.

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.