Francis Atterbury Quotes

It is by doing good that we become good.

By doing good we become good.

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

Character is perfectly educated will.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.