Quotes About Morality

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life -- not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving -- not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness -- not by our seeming greatness.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I know that a life has high value, but our rights, our independence,our honour have a higher value than life