William Howard Taft Quotes

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Character is perfectly educated will.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

Character is a perfectly educated will.

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

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

It is by doing good that we become good.

Character is the most precious gift of education.

Character teaches above our wills.

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

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.