Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

Character is a journey, not a destination.

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

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

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

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

Basketball will come and go, but the person you are will always remain.

Character building is one of my favourite things to do.

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

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

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

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

… the field of action is not the field of intellect, it is the field of character; and change or development of character is always slow work.

I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents.

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

I have become a nicer person after every film I have done.

One's character is reflected in their choices after all. I'm glad to have been making ones that make my heart soar.

Someone who's passed through the circumstances that I have has to make the decision either to be a good person or a bad person, and I decide to become better at every opportunity.

When I am older, I don't want to look at my films and not be happy about my choices.

I don't want to just be a great fighter, but also a great man.