Browsing Topic 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.

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.

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.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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

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.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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.

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

A good character is the best tombstone.

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

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.

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

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.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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

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

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

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.

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

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.

Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

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

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

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

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.