Verses on tombstones
Are but idly spent;
The living character
Is the monument.

    — Margaretta Worker

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. — Booker T. Washington

Lives of careless wrongdoing are run-down shacks; holy living builds soaring cathedrals. (Proverbs 14:11, MSG)

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. — Benjamin Jowett

Whoever says “I know him [Jesus]” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. (1 John 2:4-6, ESV)