If we are to survive we must have ideas vision and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.
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.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Wisdom compassion and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Above all we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
You have to watch all sides of your advancement you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
Opinions alter manners change creeds rise and fall but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Ten to 20 years out driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
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.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business education church morals or anything we hold dear.
What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically socially ethically and morally.
I think if you look at people whether in business or government who haven't had any moral compass who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was in the end they're losers.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business its activities or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.