Quotes About Morality

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!