Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

Jewel

At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or not, and that's why I like writing for that age group so much.

Morris Gleitzman

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

E. O. Wilson

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

James Thomson

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

Howard Dean

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Margaret Oliphant

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

Norman McLaren

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

Ace in the Hole

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

Hope for Man: an optimistic philosophy and guide to self-fulfillment

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.

The Ingenious Judge Dee

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

The Interpretation of Murder

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

Into the Wild

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

Reading Between the Lines

Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.

Reflexions, Ou Sentences Et Maximes Morale

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Mudwoman

Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake

Moral Essays

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Mother Night