Derek Blasberg 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.

Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.

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

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.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents.

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

Remorse begets reform.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

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

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

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

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.