Umera Ahmad Quotes

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

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

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

Education has for its object the formation of character.

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

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

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.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

It is by doing good that we become good.

What I desire most in my life is to become a better person. I genuinely want to be good.

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.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

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

By doing good we become good.

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.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.