Quotes About Morality

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

ThereÂ's a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.