Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.
Thomas LickonaManners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.
Thomas LickonaGood character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.
Thomas Lickona