Character Is Destiny Quotes

#1. Character is destiny. For the cronic do-gooder, the happy-go-lucky sociopath, the dysfunctional family, under the gun everyone diverts to who they are. We may hunger to map out a new course, but for most of us, the lines have been drawn since we were 5.

Mary McCormack

#2. 'Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

George Eliot

#3. Character is destiny,

Matthew Mahone

#4. Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

Mark Shields

#5. Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

Tony Hsieh

#6. If character is destiny, the good are damned.

Joseph Heller

#7. Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George Packer

#8. Character is capital for your destiny.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

#10. Your character is your destiny.

Eugene Sullivan

#11. Joy is God's basic character. Joy is his eternal destiny. God is the happiest being in the universe.

John Ortberg Jr.

#12. You must build your character before the age of 40 because there is a destiny you must discover at the age of 40.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#13. Your character is your destiny turned inside out.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our personality, and our personality scripts how successfully we interact with other people and respond to a changing environment.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#15. To be fated to lose. To know destiny itself the architect of my torment. Can it be true? Is to be Loki to be without hope? And if so...to whom can a god appeal for mercy?

Robert Rodi

#16. The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#17. Strength of character is never with those who blindly follow. You need to be able to make your own choices and walk your own path.

Celeste Lim

#18. Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

Frederick Douglass

#19. Expansion of character is connected to expansion of destiny.

James Tarantin

#20. The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

Joseph Addison

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

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#22. For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [ ... ] Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged
character of our people, and on their faith.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#23. Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#24. Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.

Hal Porter

#25. The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.

James Allen

#26. Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.

Edward O. Sisson

#27. Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

Winston Churchill

#28. Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

#29. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.

Heraclitus

#30. Character is fate. (Destiny).

Heraclitus

#31. 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.

George Santayana

#32. When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected ... and yet it's doing very well.

J. Michael Straczynski

#33. For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny - but how we relate to what happens.

Lama Surya Das

#34. Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.

David Josiah Brewer