Good Character Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  Real, Character, Thinking

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• Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

  Bob Mayer

  Character, Two, Plot

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• 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

  Character, Emotional, Trying

  Interview with Michelle Rodriguez, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

  Arleigh Burke

  Inspiring, Leadership, Determination

  "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.

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• Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Possession, Property

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• Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

  Neil Armstrong

  Unique, Flying, Machines

  "Landing on the Moon: Apollo 11, The Untold Story". www.popularmechanics.com. May 27, 2009.

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• Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Optimism, Excess

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• 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

  Character, Balance, Trying

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Character, Men, Action

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.65, Modern Library

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• A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.

  L. Tom Perry

  Good Life, Integrity, Character

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• Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one's advantage to be a little less than truthful, which makes one courageous when faced with great obstacles and which endows one with the firmness of' wise self-discipline.

  Arthur S. Adams

  Wise, Character, Self

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• A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Character, Mean

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• It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Character, Self

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• Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, Aspect, Persons

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.109, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Integrity, Character, Government

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• 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

  Character, Player, Understanding

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• 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

  Real, Character, People

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