Helen Gahagan Quotes

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

The history of mankind is his character.

You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a very shy person in those days, and working with Zero [Mostel], who was bigger than life, helped me grow. Zero was a strong influence on me.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.