Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
"William John" ""Bill"" "Bennett" is an United States/American conservatism/conservative Pundit (expert)/pundit, politician, and political theorist.
He served as United States Secretary of Education/Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Office of National Drug Control Policy/Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H. W. Bush. In 2000, he co-founded K12 (company)/K12, a publicy-traded online education company.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous politicians! More William Bennett on Wikipedia.Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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