Quotes About Character

There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.

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.

Bear good fortune modestly.

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.

people think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

We are a great nation because we are a good people.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

You can't be a good leader without good character.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.