Quotes About Character

A man is literally what he thinks

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

You are the thinker of your thoughts and as such you are the maker of yourself and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your character and life in the form of results. There are no accidents in your life. Both its harmonies and antagonisms are the responsive chords of your thoughts. A man thinks, and his life appears.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

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.

HONESTY COMPOUNDS. It compounds exponentially. No matter what happens in your bank account, in your career, in your promotions, in your startups. Honesty compounds exponentially, not over days or weeks, but years and decades. More people trust your word and spread the news that you are a person to be sought out, sought after, given opportunity, given help, or given money. This is what will build your empire.

John is a bad boy, but a good man.

Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking...

Better a shamed face than a stained heart,' Teresita announced.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.

We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.

I am fat, lazy and kind.

abuse is a problem of values, not of psychology.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.