Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

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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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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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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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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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 essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Bataille, Georges

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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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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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

Paul, Jean

26.

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Henry David Thoreau

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Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.

Warshow, Robert

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Denis Diderot

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Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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 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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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

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

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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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 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