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Quotes About Morality

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!
~ Kathy Ireland
The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
~ Laurence Sterne
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
~ Martin Luther
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
~ Michel De Certeau
It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!
~ Murray Leinster
You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.
~ Neil Gaiman
I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.
~ Phil Ochs
Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?
~ Oliver $
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
~ Roger L'Estrange
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ill-gotten gains work evil.
~ Sophocles
I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
A noble minded person is not an implement.
~ Confucius, The Analects
I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path. For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it
~ Sunday Adelaja
Living a selfish life is a recipe for disaster
~ Sunday Adelaja
You values are your life's worth
~ Sunday Adelaja
Do not always act out of religion
~ Sunday Adelaja
Our sphere of influence should reflect righteousness
~ Sunday Adelaja
You wouldn't do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God
~ Sunday Adelaja