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Thursday, May 15, 2014
Do you want to be a person of honour, integrity and character?
Then you have to act like a person of honour, integrity and character. Not just once and a while, not just when you are in a good mood, not just around people who you consider important, but all the time.
You have to get into the habit of living a life full of honour. It don’t just happen automatically. You have to practice it and work at it.
Sometimes you have to just plain grit your teeth and do it despite your feelings, until the time when acting with honour and integrity becomes automatic.
Aristotle also tells us that excellence is an art form and that it is acquired by training and repetition.
You do not do the right thing because you have virtue, but rather you have virtue because you do the right thing.
Your actions and intentions form your character.
Later, when your character has been formed and becomes a habit, it determines your actions.
The person we are must be careful to make our actions and intentions right. We has to make a habit out of this until we has perfected our character.
Once we has begun to perfect our character, acts of honour and integrity come naturally, without conscious thought.
When we get to this point, living a life of excellence will become our nature. Our actions determine who you become.
ps/smoh