Good Character Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Character, Noble, Adherence

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• It's easier to make a good person better than to make a bad person good.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Good Person, Easier

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• A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.

  L. Tom Perry

  Character, Parent

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• Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years for people to apply legally. And what's worse is, we keep on increasing the fees, so that if you've got a hard working immigrant family, they've got to hire a lawyer; they've got to pay thousands of dollars in fees. They just can't afford it. And it's discriminatory against people who have good character, we should want in this country, but don't have the money. So we've got to fix that.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Character, Mean

  Transcript: Democratic debate in Austin, Texas, www.nytimes.com. December 2, 2008.

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• 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

  Character, Long, Acting

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strength, Buddhist, Character

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• I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Looks, Stories

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who have polished their character and integrity until they shine are the ones who can be the real heroes the world needs to solve its problems. I think that, when people have the correct understanding of the meaning of human character, there will be a solution.

  Ilchi Lee

  Art, Real, Integrity

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• Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

  Merikare

  Character, World, Remembered

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• When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. and now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media.

  Henry Jenkins

  Character, Media, Support

  Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.114, NYU Press

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• 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

  Character, People, Leader

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

  Apuleius

  Character, Carpe Diem, Rich

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• Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair play, respect for the rules and traditions of the sport and various traits of good character including integrity (abiding by the letter and spirit of the rules and concepts of honor); demonstrated respect for others including teammates, opponents, officials and spectators; accountability, self-control, and graciousness in victory and defeat.

  Michael Josephson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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• Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Sick, Get Better

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Character, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Character, Men, Should Have

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• You can't be a good leader without good character.

  Tony Boselli

  Basketball, Character, Leader

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• I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

  Joan Leslie

  Character, Play

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• 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

  Character, Ethical Standards, Presidential

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• I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

  Randy Quaid

  Character, Bigger Than Life, World

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• If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

  Mary McCarthy

  Prayer, Lying, Character

  Mary McCarthy (1975). “The company she keeps”, Not Avail

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• There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Drama, Character, Writing

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• An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

  Edward Everett

  Memories, Character, Illustration

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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• You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Character, People

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

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