Words matter. These are the best Moral Character Quotes from famous people such as Mark Waters, Hugh Laurie, Aristotle, Thiruvalluvar, Benjamin Franklin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love sports. When I’m not playing, I’m watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn’t at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond his normal tetchiness, there were no more than a half-dozen moments of actual condemnation from him. He understood lies and also why you lied, and there was an absolution there that is very, very appealing.
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 of virtuous actions.
Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one’s lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.
All one needs to do is read – books, magazines, research the Internet – and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
Development is not that you make bridges, buildings or put marble floors in your house. Real development is building moral character of youth.
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
We’re so obsessed with, ‘Is Michael Cohen going to jail or not? Is Rod Rosenstein going to be fired? What did Trump tweet today? Did he call the press an enemy of the state?’ We’re so focused on that, we’re missing just the tremendous damage Trump is doing to the decency and moral character of this country.
I’m not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.
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, or employer, or ruler.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
