Quotes About Morality

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.

Conscience is a treacherous thing, and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.

Too often when conscience tries to speak, the line seems to be busy.

The great hope of society is individual character.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.

Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?'

A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice.