WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Robert, Cavett – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Robert, Cavett -- “A Ticket to Anywhere,” speech (1969) https://wist.info/robert-cavett/17724/ https://wist.info/robert-cavett/17724/#respond Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:50:55 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=17724 Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.


Cavett Robert (1908-1997) American orator, lawyer
“A Ticket to Anywhere,” speech (1969)

Variants:

  • "Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the mood in which it was made has left you."
  • "Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the emotion of the moment has passed."

Described in California Farmer, Volume 230 (1969)

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