Novalis Quotes

Character is a perfectly educated will.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

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

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

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

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

The force of character is cumulative.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

I've always been a good person, but I wanna be, like, the best person.

Development is not that you make bridges, buildings or put marble floors in your house. Real development is building moral character of youth.

Try to be a better person everyday.

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.

I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.

Character teaches above our wills.

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

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.