Maurice Ashley Quotes

I try not to be overly analytical.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

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

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

I've always been able to put things in perspective.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. 'The control of the appetites by right reason,' is how he defined it.

Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

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

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.