Quotes About Moral Fiber

#1. Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

Stephen King

#2. The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

William Mather Lewis

#3. Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#4. Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?

Karen Marie Moning

#5. It's hard to say 'No' and develop your moral fiber. That's why your school is so important.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

#6. I offered you a choice, and you took it."
I shot him what I hoped was a truly scathing glare. "Some choice. I was dying. Some drunk shot me from a pickup. Why wouldn't I have just woken up with gonorrhea like every other girl of loose moral fiber?

Molly Harper

#7. Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy.

Judy Woodruff

#8. There you go, Harry!" Ron shouted over the noise. "You weren't being thick after all - you were showing moral fiber!

J.K. Rowling

#9. The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed we have tried law , compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.

Albert J. Nock

#10. Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.

John Travolta

#11. Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#12. Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

Alvin Plantinga

#13. It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

Mike Tyson

#14. The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.

David Jeremiah

#15. Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

Richard Pryor

#16. I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.

Karen Marie Moning

#17. Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

George Carlin

#18. National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

Herbert Hoover

#19. Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

Michael Mullen

#20. I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.

Margaret Walker

#21. Look out for your baby or your friend, of course. That is easy. The test of moral fiber is to stick up for those you relate to least, understand minimally, and do not think are that much like you.

Ingrid Newkirk

#22. Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

Rick Warren

#23. When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to hold violence, you are strong enough to hold true to your pact. Then you have more moral fiber than most adults. Free will is one of the pillars of being human.

Alan McCluskey

#24. I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

Lee Iacocca

#25. The waitress looked a little awkward. "Is all that for both you and your sister?

J.R. Ward

#26. Love many, trust a few, and learn to paddle your own canoe.

American Proverb.

#27. I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn't already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.

Sarah Dessen

#28. The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief. Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

Ronald Reagan

#29. Asha, love, do you know what your name means?"

I nodded "Hope

Claire Granger

#30. The juice is worth the squeeze

Forrest Griffin