Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

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

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

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

There's a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in a similar respect, years go by with your maturation process, and it's just as important to be disciplined with that as it was in karate.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

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

Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.