Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Morality

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

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

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

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

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.

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

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

Ferber, Edna

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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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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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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

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Mencken, H. L.

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Paul, Jean

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

Denis Diderot

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Froude, James A.

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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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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Huxley, Aldous

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Colton, Charles Caleb