Motivational Quotes

Morality

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Ferber, Edna

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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 is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Froude, James A.

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

Denis Diderot

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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Greene, Graham

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

Shuman, Rick

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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 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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Scott Adams

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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