Francis Chan Quotes

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

I just think that only God will judge a person's heart.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.