Motivational Quotes

Morality

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Morality

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Rand, Ayn

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Ferber, Edna

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.

Seneca

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Hazlitt, William

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Thoreau, Henry David

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Feoude

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.

Sharpe, Cecil J.

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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Lippmann, Walter

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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Dane, Frank

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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke, John

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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Huxley, Aldous

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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Mann, Horace

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

G. K. Chesterton

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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

Goldman, Emma

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'Wrong'is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

Scott Adams

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The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

Shawcross, Lord

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Diderot, Denis

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Selden, John

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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Sontag, Susan

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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Young, Andrew

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Froude, James A.

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Kraus, Karl

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I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.

Coles, Robert

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Aristotle

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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Buchanan, Patrick

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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Anouilh, Jean

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

Neeson, Liam

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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

James A. Forude

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.

Shuman, Rick

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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

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No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.