Quotes About Character

You become that to which you are most exposed.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship movie, which is also what I love to do. That's what attracts me to projects.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

She had conquered them, as she would conquer so many in the years to come, by goodness rather than strength. It is a sorrowfully rare strategem.

The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?

Virtue keeps more people out of heaven than all their sins combined.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho' awkwardly, for his Word's sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

I had not then learned the philosophy which teaches that he who would attempt enterprises of great command, must begin his government by laying its foundations in his own breast, in control of his own passions & that he who would survey the world must first sound the depth & shallows of his own character.

It is needless to cite additional examples to illustrate the character of the interpretations, which Rashi was in the habit of giving. The few which have been furnished indicate how, in his work, the plain and the derived sense are mingled together in view of their equal importance in his eyes.

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

The manner in which a man chooses to gamble indicates his character or his lack of it.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.