Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Morality

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

Feoude

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

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

Hands, Terry

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

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

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

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

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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sallust

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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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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Kraus, Karl

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

18.

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

Shuman, Rick

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shawcross, Lord

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Durant, William J.

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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