Quotes About Molding

I said honestly. "You can only be formed by your society." I came up with a quote I had heard once: " 'Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.'

Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make ourselves, by the choices we our selves make? Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?

the mind of the child is like soft wax, which will take the least stamp you put on it, so let it be your care, who teach, to make the stamp good, that the wax be not hurt.

Mind is the master power that molds and makes, And we are Mind, and evermore we take      The tool of thought, and shaping what we will, Bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills. We think in secret, and it comes to pass —         Our world is but our looking glass.                 — JAMES ALLEN

Righteousness, not corruption, is the mold-ing and moving force in the spiritual government of the world. This being so, man has but to right himself to find that the universe is right.

I am sculptor. I am clay.What shall I make of myself today.

Children can be shaped into any way one desires.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

The potter forms what he pleases with soft clay, so a man accomplishes his works by his own act.

It hides the seams in narrative the way a strip of molding hides the junction where walls and floor meet. And it allows a person to think beyond each new drama, thus moving the story forward and allowing unresolved issues to pile up and increase tension.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

If there was something that kind of molded me into who I am now, it would be my dad. Whether it be going through adversity with a smile on my face, understanding that nothing matters other than winning and what it takes to win. All of that I think came from him.

The clay can become a bear," she said, "but not as long as it rests cold and wet in the riverbank.

We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.

No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do," because "all of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment , of education, of acquired habits and of heredity molding men as they are and will forever be.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

todos somos como la arcilla en manos del alfarero y ninguna vasija podía preguntarle: «¿por qué me has hecho así?».

He tried. He really did. For a good ninety seconds he molded the clay as best he could. His final effort came out resembling a pear.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.