Garry Trudeau Quotes

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

I'm lucky; I've been raised with the right morals.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Our ideals are our better selves.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

Woory about building a kid who is good, not a kid with good self-esteem.

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

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

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.

Integrity delivers better lives.