Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

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

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

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

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

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

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over the years. Every bad deed, every bad fault will show on your face. God can give us beauty and genes can give us our features, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

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.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.