James Callis Quotes

Our ideals are our better selves.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

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

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

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.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

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

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

I want to continue to be the same man I've always been.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

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

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.