Moral Character Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance…
— Aristotle
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Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the best possible version…
— Yu Dan
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His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as…
— William Montgomery Watt
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It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but…
— Isabella Beeton
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace;…
— Seneca the Younger
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Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of…
— John A. Lejeune
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In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.…
— Mortimer Adler
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent,…
— Samuel Morse
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves…
— Ayn Rand
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The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our…
— Peter Singer
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Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this,…
— Aristotle
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Good moral character is the first essential in a man.
— George Washington
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I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would…
— Sam Storms
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Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.
— Richard G. Scott
Who Wrote These Moral Character Quotes
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