Karrine Steffans Quotes

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.

Who you are as a character is kind of the foundation of everything.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

My point is, people really don't change very much.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

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

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

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

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

What you were is forever who you are.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.