A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.
Interpretation
Good character is developed through personal effort and is not a result of external factors.
This quote emphasizes that character is not something one is born with or receives from their family, wealth, or talents; instead, it is a trait that individuals must cultivate through their actions and choices. It highlights the importance of living according to good principles and striving for a virtuous life as the fundamental ways to build a commendable character.
In practice
In a graduation speech, to emphasize the importance of personal development.
Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?
Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home.
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Nobody is a real loser-until they start blaming somebody else.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
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