Quotes About Morality

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.