Your Character is Your Destiny | Inspiring Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 751 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Character is Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The process of character-formation involves the action and inter-action of many forces. The totality of a life, at any moment, is the product mainly of little things: trifling choices, insignificant exercises of will, unimportant acts often repeated, things seemingly of minor account — but these are the thousand tiny sculptors that are carving away continuously at the rough block of life, giving it shape and features.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 0:15.8 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Aim of Life by Phillips Stafford Moxham |
| 0:22.6 | published in 1894. |
| 0:30.5 | Character is a very different thing |
| 0:33.2 | from reputation, |
| 0:35.2 | although the two often are used interchangeably. |
| 0:39.0 | Reputation is what you are thought to be. |
| 0:42.3 | Character is what you are. |
| 0:45.2 | The one is opinion, the other is fact. |
| 0:49.6 | Circumstances and associations, or even artful management, |
| 0:58.3 | may give you a fictitious reputation for a time, |
| 1:05.3 | but your character is yourself, and that at last makes your real reputation. |
| 1:13.8 | You may run away from a bad reputation, for that is something outside of yourself, but you can never run away from a bad character, for that is yourself. |
| 1:20.1 | Your reputation is like your shadow, which, according as the sun is higher low, may be longer |
| 1:27.2 | or shorter than yourself, or may even |
| 1:30.7 | disappear altogether, as when the sun is at its zenith. |
| 1:36.5 | But your character is like the color of your eyes. |
| 1:40.7 | Look which way you will. It is the same. Having got a clear idea of what character is, |
| 1:48.0 | let us think about the ways by which it comes to be good or evil. |
| 1:53.0 | The first thing to recognize is that character is formed. |
| 1:58.0 | It is not inherited. |
| 2:00.0 | You are born with a nature which has certain susceptibilities |
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