Quotes About Character

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

Live in such a way that people who know you but don't know Christ will want to know Christ because of you.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

People shouldn't notice what you're wearing before they notice you. You want people to register you first. 'Oh, what a nice jacket' should be an afterthought if you're doing it right.

Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.

Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don't end up being someone you don't want to be.