CHARACTER

Character is defined as the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. Scientists and philosophers tell us that a man's character is shaped by his thoughts as well as the environment.
Whereas environment may play a role in the shaping of our character, our thoughts, based on our mental attitude have a bigger role to play in the mould.
The importance of thought in the moulding of our character cannot be gainsaid. 
Based on thought man is either happy or miserable. He is the perpetuator as well as the creator of his destiny.
If thought is the ingredient upon which the effects that we call happiness or misery originate, then it becomes clear that it is through internal conditions that we mould our characters.
It then shows that environment has very little role to play, if at all,in the great task of moulding our character. It also shows that the cause of man's happiness is neither deity nor the devil or circumstances, but his own thought.
Happiness and misery are therefore effects of something else. This something else is the thought. The effects that we call happiness or misery (unhappiness) are therefore the manifestation of our thoughts.
The attitude of our mind determines how we conduct our thoughts, or the kind of thoughts that we allow to take form in our mind. It is upon the kind of thoughts that we allow to take form in our mind that is born the effects that manifest as happiness and unhappiness in the physical plane of life.
This knowledge is very important to our advancement as well as our development. It is crucial because it shows us that there is hope in as much as we can change our causes.
Although it is clear that we cannot change effects of our thoughts, but we have power beyond measure to change our active thoughts, hence, acting on causes of our future happiness and unhappiness.
It becomes clear that based on the kind of thoughts you harbor, you become.
This knowledge brings us to a crucial realization that we cannot obligate effects of our thoughts, but we can alter the causes of our thoughts by reversing the way we think, or rather, the kind of thoughts we allow in our minds and only allow positive thoughts, which in turn gives us a positive mental attitude.