Formation Quotes · Page 3

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

— Thomas Chalmers

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

— Fulton J. Sheen

This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.

— Frederick Lenz

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain…

— Robert Fortune

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the…

— Thornton Wilder

When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.

— Adolph Malan

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

— John Ortberg

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

— Frank Herbert

Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened,…

— Paul Stamets

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness…

— William Ralph Inge

poverty ... is very bad for the formation of a personality. ... Not until I knew for certain where my next meal…

— Helen Westley

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the…

— William Bennett

The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and…

— Piers Corbyn

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different…

— Gordon Cooper

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits,…

— William George Jordan

A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of…

— Carol Browner

“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic,…

— T.S. Eliot

After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in…

— Andrew Dickson White

This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in…

— Maria Montessori

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put…

— Nhat Hanh

These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in…

— Pope Pius XI

In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world…

— Jacques Ellul

The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate…

— Haj Amin al-Husseini

I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I…

— Chris Sharma

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

— Maria Montessori

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

— John R. Allen

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

— Adolf Hitler

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

— William Buckland

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

— Peter Drucker

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

— Georges St-Pierre

Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.

— Nhat Hanh

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of…

— Paulo Freire

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

— John D. MacDonald

Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of…

— Alexander Kotov

Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

— Francis Bacon

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal… It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant…

— Jon Gordon

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and…

— Dallas Willard

It's difficult to play in a new formation and have everyone grasp it straight away.

— Gary Cahill