Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little, I've gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

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

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

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

Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

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

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.