Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Locke, John

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Paul, Jean

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

Ferber, Edna

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Weil, Simone

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.

Sila-Prabhrita

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Kant, Immanuel

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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

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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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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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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Greene, Graham

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Hands, Terry

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Shuman, Rick

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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Lowell, James Russell

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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Feoude

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Didion, Joan

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

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Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young