Richard Foster Quotes

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

Human improvement is from within outward.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Character building is one of my favourite things to do.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

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

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

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.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Man should be ever better than he seems.