Motivational Quotes

Morality

We become moral when we are unhappy.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Morality

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

Might was the measure of right.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Huxley, Aldous

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Hume, Basil

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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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 which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

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

Denis Diderot

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

Paul, Jean

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

Shuman, Rick

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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

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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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We moralize among ruins.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Hazlitt, William

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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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 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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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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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 and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Hattersley, Roy

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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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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Scott Adams

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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 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.

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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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Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb