Quotes About Morality

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Always take the high road.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

When you are faced with choices, you can achieve your dreams without sacrificing your integrity.

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

Let your conscience be your guide.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.

Life without decency is unbearable.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.