Quotes About Character

We all must try to be good.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

Think good, speak good, and be good.

Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

Good leaders have a generosity gene.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.