Christiane Amanpour 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.

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

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.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

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

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.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

The most important thing that I tell myself is that no matter where I go in this journey, the humility is what's gonna keep me honest and real. And perhaps a better manager.

I'm going to try to be a better guy, a better man, better husband.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

The part of my life where my character was defined was at work because of the decisions I make and the things I do, and I guess that's what I feel qualifies me and attracts me to write the characters I do.

You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.