Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hazlitt, William

The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Shawcross, Lord

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

Hands, Terry

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Greene, Graham

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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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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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Scott Adams

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Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Sica, Vittorio De

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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 moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Froude, James A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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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.