Louisa May Alcott Quotes

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

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.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

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

Try to be a better person everyday.

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

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.

In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

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.