Motivational Quotes

Morality

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.

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Feoude

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

Ferber, Edna

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

Young, Andrew

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Scott Adams

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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.

France, Anatole

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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Denis Diderot

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Lao-Tzu

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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Sallust

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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