Epictetus Quotes

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

It does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year

There's no crime in being a poor role model.

Character building is one of my favourite things to do.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

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.

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

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.