Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

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

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

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

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

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

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

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of gritty work experiences.

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.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Development is not that you make bridges, buildings or put marble floors in your house. Real development is building moral character of youth.

Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.

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

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

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

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.