Quotes On Habits And Character

#1. What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

J.C. Ryle

#2. Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Paxton Hood

#3. Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.

Spencer W. Kimball

#4. 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.

Luke Rhinehart

#5. Manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

Peter Kreeft

#6. There are for each of us several parallelisms between our intelligence, our habits, and our character, which develop without a break, and break only in the great disturbances of life.

Victor Hugo

#7. Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Thomas Chalmers

#8. Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Elizabeth George

#9. Thoughts become actions, actions become habits, habits become our character, and our character becomes our destiny.

James Hunter

#10. 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.

Henry Hancock

#11. Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.

Michael Josephson

#12. Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

Thomas Lickona

#13. Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend ...

Charlotte Mason

#14. Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#16. Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

Richard Whately

#17. Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.

Clair Bee

#18. You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.

James E. Faust

#19. Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.

Delbert L. Stapley

#20. Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Tryon Edwards

#21. Dare to dream. For your dreams become words, your words become actions, your actions become habits, your habits become character, and your character becomes your destiny.

Hyperion Books

#22. Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

#23. Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn't it? Everything else is artful.

Angela Carter

#24. Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct.

Edwin J. Delattre

#25. We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.

Chris Matakas

#26. All of us have schnozzles ... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

Jimmy Durante

#27. What is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.

John Stuart Mill

#28. One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.

Thomas Lickona

#29. I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

Joseph Addison

#30. If habits, lifestyles, or personalities are fruits, then the thoughts, words, or actions are seeds. Change your seeds and the fruits will change accordingly. This can a flow like this. Thoughts -> Words -> Actions -> Habits -> Character -> Destiny.

Ilchi Lee

#31. know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.

Andrew Murray

#32. Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

Roger L'Estrange

#33. A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

Michael Josephson

#34. We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.

Edwin J. Delattre

#35. Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Samuel Smiles

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

Ezra Taft Benson

#37. Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.

Dallas Willard

#38. I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy ... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

Ben Kingsley

#39. How intoxicating to feel like God the Father and to hand out definitive testimonials of bad character and habits.

Albert Camus

#40. Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.

Thomas Lickona

#41. Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.

Nick Saban

#42. The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

Edwin J. Delattre

#43. Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#44. Character isn't something you talk about; it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.

Brian Joyce