Charles Fillmore Quotes

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

Character is the architect of the being.

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

Life is shaped from the inside out.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Our thoughts are a field of energy cycles, a mind field, and just by our thoughts alone we impact not only ourselves but those around us as well.

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.