Jean Paul Quotes

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

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

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

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.

Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

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

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

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.

All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

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 just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

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

I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

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

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

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.

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

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

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

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

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.