Moral Character Quotes

50 quotes by 46 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Good moral character is the first essential in a man. — George Washington
• 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
• 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
• 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

46 authors contributed a total of 50 Moral Character Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Moral Character Quotes by Aristotle
• 3 Moral Character Quotes by George Washington
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Timothy Keller
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Suzy Kassem
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Saint Augustine
• 1 Moral Character Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Christopher Hitchens
• 1 Moral Character Quote by John Locke
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Margaret Chase Smith
• 1 Moral Character Quote by P.G. Wodehouse
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Charles Dickens
• 1 Moral Character Quote by François-René de Chateaubriand
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Joseph Heller
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Patrick Rothfuss
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Yu Dan
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Charles Darwin
• 1 Moral Character Quote by William Montgomery Watt
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Nathanael Emmons
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Isabella Beeton
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Lysander Spooner
• 1 Moral Character Quote by Seneca the Younger