Best Good Character Quotes

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

A good character is the best tombstone.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

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

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

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

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.

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.

And once we have given our community a good start,’ I pointed out, ‘ the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

Character is simply habit long continued.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

There are good characters and bad characters.

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)