Quotes About Morality

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22