Quotes About Morality

If you just broke up with someone, be sad; if you just ran over somebody drunk driving, feel depressed. You shouldn't take a pill that makes you feel okay about terrible things.

it seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult. He is contemptible in that his judgments reflect a vision of himself which in his ignorance and pride he would impose upon the world. I implore you, do not become a moralist; you will destroy your art and your mind.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

In the 1790s, more than a century before the invention of modern dating culture, an underground sexual economy flourished on a scale almost unimaginable today. Men, whether they were married or not, enjoyed wide sexual latitude: they could often pursue an active sexual double life without incident. Women, on the other hand, faced a stark contrast between sexual respectability and social ruin.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

As a leader you must be sincerely committed to what's right rather than who's right.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

Ethics and Attitude Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are. Character is more important.

Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal.

Some people today may think these are naive or kind of corny. But think a moment about what they mean and who you become if you abide by them. That isn't naive. You don't become corny.

Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.

The smallest good dead is better than the best intention

Happiness is in many things. It's in love. It's in sharing. But most of all, it's in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand Workin' in the dark against your fellow man But as sure as God made black and white What's down in the dark will be brought to the light

That he would pause In his killing To go about the business Of preparing for the living Knowing That he will immediately return To the business of killing?

Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

trust that you now perceive the same act may wear as many different hues of right or wrong as the rainbow, according to the atmosphere in which it is done.