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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“There is probably no way of explaining Project Koschei, or XK-PLUTO, or MK-NIGHTMARE, or the gates, without watering them down into just… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is… — Isabella Beeton 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
“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 really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand.… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yeah, sure,” I scoffed. “You’re the picture of respectability and moral character…You expect me to believe you were your parents’ worst nightmare?… — M.A. George 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
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
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
“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
“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
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 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
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
Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their… — Zig Ziglar 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 love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in… — Mark Waters 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
“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
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
We're so obsessed with, 'Is Michael Cohen going to jail or not? Is Rod Rosenstein going to be fired? What did Trump… — Daniel Pfeiffer 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
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
“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
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
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
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
