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Heraclitus

A man’s character is his fate.

Topic: Character
Location: Baja Peninsula, Mexico
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

More Quotes from Heraclitus

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one. — Heraclitus

Listening Wisdom

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. — Heraclitus

Awareness Life Perception

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny… it is the light that guides your way. — Heraclitus

It is in changing that things find purpose. — Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change. — Heraclitus

Big results require big ambitions. — Heraclitus

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Kindness Practice Virtue

A wonderful harmony is created when we join together the seemingly unconnected. — Heraclitus

Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. — Heraclitus

Action Choice Thinking

More Quotes from Baja Peninsula

The friendship that can cease has never been real. — St. Jerome

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. — Lucille Ball

Talking with a person is different than speaking at them. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Communication Listening Respect

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. — Thomas Jefferson

Freedom Liberty

If fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. — Terence

Education Learning Society Solitude

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. — Franklin Roosevelt

Action Conviction

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein

Adversity Opportunity

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. — Aristotle

Excellence Habits

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. — Benjamin Franklin

More on Character

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

› Will Rogers

adapt Adversity Character Goals Leadership Planning Purpose Strength

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

› William Shakespeare

Accountability Character Commitment Happiness Love Principle Truth

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

› Abraham Lincoln

A fair character is a fair fortune.

› Irish Proverb

Character Fortune

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation. — Susan B. Anthony

Change Character Courage Fear Leadership Reputation Society

Whoever is careless with truth in small matters, cannot be trusted with important affairs. — Albert Einstein

Character Reputation Trust Truth

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. — Abraham Lincoln

Character Leadership Respect Responsibility Self-esteem Truth

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified. — Mohandas Gandhi

Character Money

There’s neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. — William Shakespeare

Character Reputation

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. — Mark Twain

Ambition Character Expectations Friendship

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather, indicates, his fate. — Henry David Thoreau

Character Destiny Fate Self-esteem Thinking

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. — Thomas Carlyle

Character Kindness

Tell me with whom you walk, and I will tell you who you are. — Mexican Proverb

Character Friendship Reputation

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare

Character Integrity Reputation Truth

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race. — Booker T. Washington

Character Confidence Freedom Goals Leadership Perseverance Self-esteem Society Work

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. — John Wooden

Character Reputation

It's the empty can that makes the most noise. — Dutch Proverb

Character Confidence Conflict Self-esteem

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitude Character Life

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition Character Passion Principle Values

What is left when honor is lost? — Publilius Syrus

Character Honor Leadership

Success has ruined many a man. — Benjamin Franklin

Character Success

One must be something to be able to do something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character Leadership

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

› C. S. Lewis

Adversity Character Leadership

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks. — John D. Rockefeller

Character Leadership

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