High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Good moral character is the first essential in a man.
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.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.
Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has chosen some to live and others to die on a whim; yet you say it is your moral right to choose whether the child within you should live or die. Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right.
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
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.
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 the moral character of another person.
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 pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.
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 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
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
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