Good Character Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Character, Men, Office

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• 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

  Character, Mind, Dry

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.651, Ravenio Books

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• There are good characters and bad characters.

  Matt Stone

  Character, Bad Character

  "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Dream, Hard Work, Character

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• . . . 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

  Friendship, Real, Character

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• A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

  Francis Atterbury

  Character, Mean, Ends

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• When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Writing, Character, Prejudice

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• Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.

  Sivananda

  Character, Evil, Temptation

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• 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

  Country, Stupid, Character

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• 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

  Real, Character, Persons

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• Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.

  Anuj

  Dream, Believe, Character

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• Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

  Lyman Beecher

  Running, Lying, Character

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• I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.

  Austin Grossman

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

  Thomas Lickona

  Good Love, Character, Moral Strength

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• 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

  Integrity, Heart, Character

  Thomas Lickona (2009). “Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility”, p.51, Bantam

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• I'd love to do a Paul Greengrass movie, or something like that, that's a character-driven action film. I'd like someone to make me go to the gym every day, and all that stuff. I don't know. Wherever the good characters are, I tend to try to get a job. It was nice because this was dipping my toe in the action genre. Maybe I might put my foot in, next time.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Nice, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Heart, Character, Mind

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• A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

  A. Powell Davies

  Character, Greatness, Vision

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• Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Men, My Fair Lady

  1913 Higgins to Pickering. Pygmalion, act 2.

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• You must learn to look at people who are angry with you straight in the eye without getting angry back. When children see their parents treating them this way, they then recognize the parents' authority. It speaks louder than words. Their new respect for the parents is as good for them as it is for the parents. It never works to demand respect of children. It must be given willingly as a result of strength of good character in the parents, which is manifested by their non-reaction to stress in the children.

  Roy Masters

  Children, Stress, Character

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• People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Character, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Children, Character, Self

  Interview with "Forbes" Magazine, 2009.

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• All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

  Suzanne Collins

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, "Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this."

  Nick Swardson

  Character, Skeletons, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Black, Imagine, Pessimist

  "Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So..." Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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