Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

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

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

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 not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

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

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

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

You must do right before you feel good.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

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.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

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

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

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

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.

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