No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Related quotes

1

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr

Day, Character, Color

2

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King, Jr

Education, Character, Goal

3

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr

Day, Children, Character

4

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

William James

Work, Character, World

5

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William James

Age, Character, World

6

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

Will Smith

Character, Focus, Create

7

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

Will Smith

Work, Character, Energy

8

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.

Isabel Allende

Love, Happy, Character

9

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.

Isabel Allende

Life, Character, Political

10

All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

Zig Ziglar

Positive, Character, Strong

11

Only men of character are trusted.

Zig Ziglar

Character, Men, Only

12

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

Zig Ziglar

Work, Character, Loyalty