Aubrey de Vere Quotes

Our ideals are our better selves.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

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

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Be as you wish to seem.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

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

A lot of people will say they strive and drive to be the best in the industry and I get that, but for me, I think I'm just pushing to be the best version of myself that I can be.

I'm just trying to be the best version of me that I can be.

My only focus was to be the best version of myself.

I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

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

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

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