Top 100 Quotes About Good Character
#1. Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.
Michael Josephson
#2. It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.
Justin Hartley
#3. There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.
Noah Hawley
#4. The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#5. Then a woman of good character will be very attracted to you, will consider you a wonderful potential husband, even if she does not show it." Avelina had to swallow the lump that rose into her throat. "She will count herself fortunate to have secured your good opinion." He
Melanie Dickerson
#6. To Lilo, Suleika, Constance, and Raul, thank you for coming up with some really good character names when I was in a pinch.
Kayti Nika Raet
#7. First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.
Dennis Haysbert
#8. A good reputation may be worth millions,
but a good character is worth all the riches of the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.
Milla Jovovich
#10. God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
John Ortberg
#11. The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.
Gautama Buddha
#13. No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.
Michael Josephson
#14. Bad company corrupts good character.
Menander
#15. It was the Prophet (saas) who said "I was sent to perfect good character"2 and "By One in whose hand there is my life: None shall enter Paradise except one who has got good conduct."3
Harun Yahya
#16. Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#17. The man of good character is humble before those less educated than him, compassionate to those less fortunate than him, and kind to those inferior to him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
Ann Radcliffe
#19. I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.
Stefan Edberg
#20. Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.
Levi Woodbury
#21. You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately for our country, every man stands upon his own merit.
Stephen Decatur
#22. I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
Joseph Addison
#23. Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.
Tryon Edwards
#24. Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.
John C. Maxwell
#25. Good character is the single most important attribute of a successful and worthy life.
Michael Josephson
#26. Moral formation and the imitation of Christ are nothing new, even if their challenges must be taken up anew by each of us. The practices, disciplines, and virtues that shape good character have been part of the conversation in the Christian tradition for centuries.
David I. Smith
#27. A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.
Sam Hunt
#28. Moral experience - the actual possession and exercise of good character - is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.
Aristotle.
#29. Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
Samuel Smiles
#30. It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.
Harrison Ford
#31. A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
Aristotle.
#32. Extreme poverty would be hard to bear, but a miserable person is miserable however rich. A good character is our most important possession, rich or poor.
Alan Ryan
#33. Abraham had eight sons
not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of his sons. He was a good father who made sure all his sons were literate, of good character and shared a common ideology with their father, Abraham. Abraham did good. Where did we go wrong?
pg 54
Michael Ben Zehabe
#34. Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#35. A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.
Michael Josephson
#36. We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.
Edwin J. Delattre
#37. We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.
Matt Passmore
#38. The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives.
Anuj
#39. There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#40. A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
Seneca The Younger
#41. First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes.
David Brooks
#42. PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?
HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
George Bernard Shaw
#43. I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.
Andy Serkis
#44. I recognized your good character.
Because of my silence, Petra Hermans
H. Koper
Petra Hermans
#45. It's actually easier to truly become a person of good character than to persuade others we are what we are not.
Michael Josephson
#46. A good character will be recognized by a good
character.
Petra Hermans
September 8, 2016
Petra Hermans
#47. I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model.
Jeremy Shockey
#49. To obtain greatness and strength, a man must have a good character. He is honorable and respected by others. We define him as intelligent, and as one who God has blessed with wisdom
Ellen J. Barrier
#50. I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.
Michael Sheen
#51. In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
John Stuart Mill
#52. Good character isn't produced overnight; it's grown over many seasons. In the same way you sort the good apples from the bad, the marks of poor characters are just as easy to detect.
Nicole Deese
#53. The world is full of ruffians. The world is full of people of good character. Both of these statements are true, I believe, because within most of the people I have known lies the beginning points of both seemingly disparate paths.
R.A. Salvatore
#54. The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.
Edwin J. Delattre
#55. I am determined not to assume the sacerdotal office, for I have seen many men whom I have regarded as persons of good character and liberal dispositions, degenerate into avarice, sloth, and dissipation, in consequence of their introduction into the priesthood
Poggio Bracciolini
#56. and some are every year restored to it upon the good character that is given of them.
Thomas More
#57. A person of "good character" was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community
Sheena Iyengar
#58. Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
#59. A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#60. Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.
Ninette De Valois
#61. If you can't be of good character, write a good character.
Rosen Trevithick
#62. What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.
Michael Connelly
#63. You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
A. Powell Davies
#64. Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Aristotle.
#65. Why?"
"Because ... because he's so tall," Mindy explained, like height was proof of good character. "And did I mention European?"
"Yes. It's so much better to be stalked by a tall European that an American of average height.
Beth Fantaskey
#66. Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.
Anuj
#67. It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.
Salma Hayek
#68. Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands.
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives ... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.
William J. Clinton
#70. The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
Kate Atkinson
#71. I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.
David B. Coe
#72. A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#73. Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.
John C. Maxwell
#74. Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.
Joe Baca
#75. Manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.
Peter Kreeft
#76. Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man's good character is marked by his impeccable attire.
Hal Duncan
#77. If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
#78. He's Wayne Rooney - a good character and a lively character,He's been very helpful and understanding and has certainly made me feel welcome at international level and on club duty. He's a fantastic player and you can only learn from him. It's great to have him around.
Phil Jones
#79. The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be struggling to get payments. It has to be properly organized. You can only beat that horse of good and easy money so many times before it eventually dies.
Brian Tracy
#80. May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Apuleius
#82. No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#83. I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
Brian De Palma
#84. Success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.
J. Willard Marriott
#85. I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
Marcus Aurelius
#86. If you want to test someone's character, give him respect. If he has good character, he will respect you more, if he has bad character, he will think is the best of all.
Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#87. I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.
Edward Herrmann
#88. You can't be a good leader without good character.
Tony Boselli
#89. Kindness toward the voiceless or the vulnerable, like animals and children, usually denoted good character in a person.
Jeaniene Frost
#90. We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.
Thomas Bernhard
#91. Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.
Thomas Lickona
#92. A few years ago, honesty was the hallmark of a man of good character. But it's been set aside for an "It's all right if you don't get caught" philosophy.
Billy Graham
#93. A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#94. It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.
Benjamin Franklin
#95. You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#96. Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
Alan Dershowitz
#97. People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.
John C. Maxwell
#98. The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
Elliott Abrams
#99. It's easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#100. You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.
Jonathan Kent
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