Immanuel Kant Quotes

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I need to learn, and to grow from what I learn.

Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

I am always trying to improve and see my weakness and work on it.

Character building is one of my favourite things to do.

I know things that I need to work on in my life, things that I can be better at.

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.

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Private victories precede public victories.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.