Anne Bronte Quotes

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

It's my job to try and be as good a person as I can, and that's enough work for me.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.