“Happiness induced morality does not say anything about the content of a person's character. The real mettle of an individual's character is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon… — Elias Boudinot Copy Share Image
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
“Hence we may overthrow the error of those who think to form the moral character of others by speaking well and doing… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Not only is [a mother] entrusted with the guardianship of the intellect and character of the world's statesmen and philosophers, but her… — C.E. Sargent Copy Share Image
Mary's virginity protected a great deal more than her own moral character, reputation, and the legitimacy of Jesus' birth. It protected the… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up… — William Montgomery Watt Copy Share Image
“LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE This isn't a politically correct position to have, but I'm convinced that the lack of moral character in many… — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“likes of you!” Monger’s Lane! Of course! Gratitude warmed my chest and I could have hugged this horrid old woman. She might… — Ava Richardson Copy Share Image
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I want our children's children to be free to walk safely down the street, girls to attend school, and women to work.… — Julie Carmen Copy Share Image
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
We must renew our commitment to instilling high moral character in our students, to teaching them to treat each other with kindness,… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“The preservation of liberty depends upon the intellectual and moral character of the people. As long as knowledge and virtue are diffused… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image