Morality and Character
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
—George Washington (1732-1799 American 1st President)
Virtue alone is true nobility.
—Homer (9th Century B.C. Greek poet)
Fortune is the companion of virtue.
—Thomas Hardy (1840-1928 British novelist and poet)
Happiness is not the end of life, character is.
—Henry Word Beecher (1813-1887 American clergyman)
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.
—Immanuel Kant (1724-1804 German philosopher)
Character is what you are in the dark.
—Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899 American evangelist)
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832 German poet and playwright)
True merit is like a river, the deeper it is the less noise it makes.
—Edsard Frederick Halifax (1881-1959 British politician)
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
Not the whiteness of years, but of morals, is praiseworthy.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805 German poet and playwright)
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
—Jacqueline Bisset (1944- British actress)
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
—Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-1989 British philosopher)
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
—Faith Baldwin (1893-1978 American novelist)
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
—Immanuel Kant (1724-1804 German philosopher)