One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
No man is free who is not master of himself.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.