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Letter "M" » moral character
«Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
athletic, burdens, degrees, follower, imposes, moral character, restraint, self-restraint, technique, traits
«I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.»
«Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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Power,
Society
| Keywords:
corrupts, increases, moral character
«Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
grandeur, humblest, in force, moral character, moral force, moral principle, The Force
«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 among men who live by sharking and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respecta»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
bald, bald eagle, bird of, eagle, lousy, moral character, representative, sharking, sharks, turkey
«Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids»
«IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences --then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, dependent, dependent on, disorder, expediency, immoral, inexpedient, instances, in the long run, moral character, moral philosophy, notions, nowise, originated, regard to, right and wrong, with regard to
«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.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
moral character, on-the-scene, reappear, reappeared, reappears, unsettle, unsettled
«I sincerely. believe. in the general existence of moral instinct. I think it the brightest gem with which the human character is studded, and the want of it as more degrading than the most hideous of the bodily deformities.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
bodily, brightest, deformities, deformity, degrading, gem, hideous, moral character, sincerely, stud, studded, studs, The General
«I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
active, alive, be active, deeply, define, felt, intensely, mental, moments, moral, moral character, particular, Real Character, Real Me, seek out, speaks, voice
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