Quotes About Morality

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.

We should use our old moral values and our love of peace as the foundation of national reconstruction and look forward to the day when we shall become leaders in world reconstruction upon lines of international justice and good will.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

People say values are expensive, but I say they create economic value.

Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully.

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

We have a set of core values. Honesty, respect.

experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.