Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

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.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

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

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.

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

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Character is a journey, not a destination.