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Quotes About Morality

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.
~ Voltaire
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
~ Walter Lippmann
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
~ William Hazlitt
The wealthiest man among us is the best
~ William Wordsworth
Only men of character are trusted.
~ Zig Ziglar
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.
~ Confucius
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
~ Confucius
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
~ Confucius
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
~ Confucius
Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.
~ Confucius
The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
~ Confucius
When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
~ Dan Totheroh
Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.
~ David Jeremiah
We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.
~ David O. McKay
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
~ E. W. Howe
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
~ Elias Canetti
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
~ Epictetus
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
~ Erich Fromm
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
~ Euripides
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
~ Friedrich Schiller