Jim Rohn 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.

Jim Rohn

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• For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Responsibility
  • Liberty

• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Black

• As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Done
  • Character
  • Together

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Growing
  • Responsibility
  • Moving

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Character
  • Thoughts

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Speak
  • Walls

• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Los Angeles

• To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Science

• Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Think
  • Him

• My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Character
  • Think
  • Politics

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Business
  • Job
  • Government

• A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Responsibility
  • Successful

• I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him.

  

  Doug Liman
  • World
  • Men
  • Country

• This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Thinking
  • Miracle
  • Sciences

• The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • American
  • Control
  • Will

• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Back

• 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.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Character
  • Responsibility