Quotes About Character

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

Personality, too, is destiny.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.