Quotes About Morality

A bad system can destroy good people.

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

"Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken."

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

This is the substance of the way of the samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.