Best Moral Strength Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people, many a times, do not even realise how low they have fallen.”

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Book:The Secret of the Nagas

Source: The Secret of the Nagas

“A volley thundered — and the prisoner kneeling beside Peter collapsed lifelessly into the dirt. Three more men fell elsewhere along the line. “Reload!” the State Security lieutenant kept commanding. “Aim!” Peter turned his gaze toward the NKVD squad. A rifle was pointed straight at his chest, the bayonet gleaming. He looked into the barrel. “Can a crude piece of lead really destroy my unique soul forever? No — that is absurd!” In a state of shock, he felt himself tearing away from reality, rising above the turmoil into a silvery, radiant height. Below, his body knelt on the ground. But his essence — his soul — watched what was happening with bitter irony from above. His gaze turned toward the beautiful light descending from the heavens. Peter shuddered. The rifle was still aimed at his chest. Yet he felt no fear. Now he knew: his soul could not die — it was impossible. His essence, his spirit — and therefore he himself — were immortal. “Stand down!” the NKVD lieutenant said with relief. “This time you are spared. But if there is any further sabotage, there will be no mercy.” — Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One Context note: During a prisoner transport in Stalin’s USSR, Peter witnesses an execution and is moments away from being shot himself. Facing death, fear gives way to a profound inner realization about the immortality of the human spirit.”

Fear Inner Strength Execution Human Spirit Near Death Existential Crisis Near Death Experience Gulag Moral Strength Stalin Era

Book:Камень. Биографический роман: Часть первая. Первые шаги к свету и обратно

Source: Камень. Биографический роман: Часть первая. Первые шаги к свету и обратно

“Remaining true to your principles, ethics, and beliefs, despite the trials of life, is among the most profound tests of one’s character…”

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Author:Madhu Sudan Sharma

“You know what I know, Mally. Now you must decide what to believe.”

Bravery Independence Moral Strength

Book:For The Kingdom

Source: For The Kingdom

“Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.”

Knows Character Moral Awareness Good Character Good Love Moral Strength

Author:Thomas Lickona

“Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.”

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Author:Margaret of Valois

“Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.”

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Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.”

“Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.”

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Author:Pauline Kael

“There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.”

Years Ideas Moral Human Nature Fields Intellectual Seven Famine Withered Moral Strength

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?”

Hands Humanity Evil Found Term Moral Add Aids Temptation Good And Evil Conquest Hand In Hand Grappling Moral Strength

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.”

Ideas Real Certain Evil Nations Existence Moral Weakness Extraordinary Arguing Real Life Crush Rising Being Real Glamour Rising Up Moral Strength

Book:Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America: 1638-1870

Source: Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America: 1638-1870

“True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.”

Giving Moral Knowledge Standing True Knowledge Moral Strength

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.”

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Book:Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

“... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.”

Wells War Nations Brain Moral Battle Tests Series Muscles Stamina Moral Strength

Author:Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder

“Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.”

Men World Moral Six Thirty Legends Immense Moral Strength

Author:Erich Fromm

“In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.”

Feelings Reality House Moral Written Objects Keys Practicals Spells Imaginary Comforting Vigilance Memorizing One Hundred Years Of Solitude Moral Strength

Book:Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library

Source: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library

“Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.”

Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”

Ifs Knows Trying May Religion Moral Atheism Source Late Discovery Positive Atheism Too Late Moral Strength

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.”

“Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”

Want Character Pay Moral Cost Right Thing Doing The Right Thing Moral Strength

Author:Michael Josephson

“Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.”

People Knows Character Moral Awareness Ethical Good Character Good Love Moral Strength

Author:Michael Josephson

“It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.”

Giving War Force Effort Moral Democracy Security Military Protect Conflict Armed Forces Moral Strength

Author:Max Lerner

“When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing.”

I Can Government Results Moral Periods Prison South Appearance South Africa Apartheid New Government Moral Strength

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an avalanche, as instances of general forces, as not yet fully human because utterly conditioned by their circumstances. Where Turgenev saw men, Marx saw classes of men; where Turgenev saw people, Marx saw the People. These two ways of looking at the world persist into our own time and profoundly affect, for better or for worse, the solutions we propose to our social problems.”

“These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's the wicked Jews, false Jews, that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!”

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Author:Louis Farrakhan