Charles Wagner Quotes

Be as you wish to seem.

I think the biggest thing with me is that I just pride myself on being the best human being I can be.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

The most important thing that I tell myself is that no matter where I go in this journey, the humility is what's gonna keep me honest and real. And perhaps a better manager.

I try to be honest with myself.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.