Jim Caviezel Quotes

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.

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

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

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

You've got to be the best person you can be in your life.

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

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

I try to be conscious of others, put my best foot forward and show growth. I just try to be my best self - and I think that is the most important thing.

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

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

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

I lay back and see how I can do things the right way.

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

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

I'm not perfect. But I hold myself to a high standard every day.

We can't worry about the future, just try to be the best person we can today.

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

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

Our ideals are our better selves.

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.