GOOD is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.
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This sense of honor is the sense of right. It is the soul's instinctive love for the good, the true, the commendable, and its instinctive scorn of the base, mean, and vile. There is a confusion between that false honor which cares only what another thinks.Edward O. Sisson
'What sort of man or woman shall I be what kind of life shall I propose and hew out ' The answer one frames to this question is his personal ideal, and will exercise a potent influence upon the development of his character and the direction of his condu.
Edward O. Sisson
Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which character will not form nor stand a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates into vanity or conceit, or is lost entirely, its place being taken by worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness and that is the end of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no one else will respect us this is rather a dangerous way to put it let us rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere seeming. As Paulsen says, 'It is vanity that desires first of all to be seen and admired, and then, if possible, really to be something whereas proper self esteem desires first of all to be something, and' then, if possible, to have its worth recognized.'
Edward O. Sisson
In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.
Edward O. Sisson
Abraham Lincoln tells somewhere that as a boy when he met an obscure or ambiguous sentence in his reading it threw him into a sort of rage. The fact is that this was simply a form of instinct for clear thinking which is found in every child and manifests.
Edward O. Sisson
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