Leah Remini Quotes

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

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

Our ideals are our better selves.

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

It's my job to try and be as good a person as I can, and that's enough work for me.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

One's character is reflected in their choices after all. I'm glad to have been making ones that make my heart soar.