Good Character Quotes - Page 6

• Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Character, Years, Two

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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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• 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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• 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

  Character, Ignorance, Moral

  Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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

  Strong, Character, People

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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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• 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

  Character, Commitment, Principles

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• I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

  Stefan Edberg

  Character, Thinking, Trouble

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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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• Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Father, Character

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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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• A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community

  Sheena Iyengar

  Character, Expectations, Community

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Hard Work, Character, Men

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• 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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• 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

  Fun, Character, Play

  "Blake Lively and Salma Hayek Talk About SAVAGES, Slapping and Spitting on Benicio del Toro, and Swearing in Spanish". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2012.

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• A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

  Aristotle

  Character, Presidential, Carrie

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• 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

  Jobs, Character, Space

  "Press Conference Interview With Harrison Ford On Ender’s Game". Interview with Ben Kenber, wegotthiscovered.com. October 29, 2013.

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• 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

  Character, Views, Divergent

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (2014). “Spirit of Islam”, p.7, Goodword Books

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