Best Good Character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Leaders' Ladder

“Leaders decorate the world; character is their paint. They live exemplary life and make the world better than they found it.”

Source: Leaders' Ladder

“Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!”

Source: Daily Drive 365

“A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.”

“I believe life is an education meant to teach us the need to be better people. And I believe this learning often takes place through trial and error which may mean being an awful person at times before clearly seeing and grasping the necessity to improve. If you don't agree with me, just ask Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge. I think Charles Dickens got it quite right.”

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Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“The two of you are very different, but people of good character can disagree and still be admirable.”

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Book:Carved in Stone

Source: Carved in Stone

“To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity!”

Source: Leaders' Watchwords

“Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage; it will be hard to capture it again!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Change your character and your character will change you.”

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Author:ABC

“It felt as if Jay would always be the one who had made it to the sand and Hud would be the one thrown off the wave. But even before 10 years old, Hud was managing this, redirecting his interests. ‘Nice one!’ Hud said, giving Jay a thumbs-up. This was some thing Hud took pride in, his lack of ego, his ability to appreciate the success of others, even when he had failed. His mother called it ‘good character’.”

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Book:Malibu Rising

Source: Malibu Rising

“Kindness should be at the core of one’s character. Be kind purely because it is who you are.”

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Book:Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Rats! It's rainy outside, And to be a good fella Invite a smile so wide Nobody needs umbrella!”

Source: ACross Tic

“Although it is good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent.”

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Author:Gift Gugu Mona

“Although it’s good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent.”

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Author:Gift Gugu Mona

“It’s easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.”

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Book:Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.”

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Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“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.”

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Author:Heraclitus

“Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands.”

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Book:Shaping the dream

Source: Shaping the dream

“Be under the broad day light and act rightly; go into the dark night and do the same thing. Never let what you do in light and darkness mis-match. That’s a good character of leadership!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.”

“I can choose not to get angry. I can choose not to take offense. I can choose not to dwell on criticism. I can choose to pay no heed to harsh words. I can choose to ignore negativity and see positives. I can choose to value my own opinion over those of naysayers. Through it all, I can retain my good character and choose to be kind.”

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Book:Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Gisela. She was beautiful and easy to talk to. And unlike Rainhilda, she didn't prattle on and on about things Valten didn't care or know anything about. She talked about horses-a subject he was quite comfortable with. And he always thought a love of horses was sign of gentleness and good character.”

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Book:The Captive Maiden

Source: The Captive Maiden

“Acting jealous was wrong, and Kat felt happy with her life...even if she wished she could brag about how she saved lives and defeated an evil genius today. Sometimes, having a secret identity stunk.”

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Book:Kat Doggers: Superspy: Book 1 of the Kat Doggers Series

Source: Kat Doggers: Superspy: Book 1 of the Kat Doggers Series

“Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”

“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.”

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Author:Anne Frank

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

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Author:Aristotle

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

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Author:Thomas Lickona

“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.”

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Book:Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

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

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“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.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“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.”

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Author:A. Powell Davies

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

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Author:A. Powell Davies

“Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.”

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Author:Bayard Taylor

“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.”

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Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

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

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

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Author:Roy Masters

“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.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“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.”

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“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.”

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Author:Suzanne Collins

“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."”

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Author:Nick Swardson

“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.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“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.”

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“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.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.”

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Author:Michael Pollan

“I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.”

Thinking Character Stories Teach Come Up Good Character

Author:Thomas Lennon

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