Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

A man’s character is his fate.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Although designers continue to dream of ‚transparency‘ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‚personality.‘

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.