Motivational Quotes

Morality

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

Best Quotes about Morality

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

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

Rand, Ayn

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Coward, Noel

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

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sica, Vittorio De

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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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 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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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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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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Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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The end never really justifies the meanness.

Hulse, E. Duane

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

Sallust

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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

Proust, Marcel

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Young

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Scott Adams

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