Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

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

Character is a perfectly educated will.

Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

Growing up a good person, it's a lot harder than you'd think.

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

Character is the most precious gift of education.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

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

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

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.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

To be a great leader, first become a great person.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.