Positive Character Traits Quotes

Grateful people are good people, and good people are happy people

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

Kindness is a highly underrated quality.

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.

And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

As a woman, first of all, let me say this: I know Donald Trump for 30 years. We socialized with him. I have been involved in a million situations with him and his children. He has always been a gentleman.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.