Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

I've always been transparent in who I am as a person.

There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters , to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

I'm not acting; I'm not playing me. People forget that their actions make them who they are.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

I choose to be authentic in everything I do

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.

Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.

A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.