Quotes About Morality

Don't neglect the ones who love you. Tomorrow is promised to no one. Treat people well. Remember what goes around comes around and sometimes even worse.

Everyone plays the game of life, but not everyone follows the rules.

No private pleasure is worth public pain.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.

Speak the truth to all. It makes our heart lighter and our life easier. And we won't have to worry about which lie we've told to whom.

Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do nothing for you!

Every day we are faced with choices to make. Before making your choice, ask yourself the most basic question. Can you sleep at night with the choice you made?

The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from family life where people treat one another withrespect, consideration, and love.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -Polonius

Being true means having integrity; and integrity is doing the right thing even when you know nobody is watching.

You can go with the flow and follow trends when it comes to superficial issues, such as style, but when it comes to moral issues, you should not be swayed by popular opinion.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.

Stand for what's right, even if that means standing alone. Never compromise your standards and values!

Never compromise your values, and never apologize for how you feel.

Sincerity and honesty, are two words that will lead you on the right path... always be true to yourself!

I'd rather be honest than impressive.

No matter how difficult things may be, be good and remain true to yourself. Show sincerity in what you do, always remember that a lie spoils a thousand truth.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

there is in the sadist — good as he may be, indeed the better he is — a thirst for evil that malefactors cannot satisfy.

for want of feeling or immorality, once confessed, simplify life as effectively as loose morals: they remove the need to find excuses for blameworthy actions, and transform them into obligations of sincerity

it appears that vice is far more common than one has been led to believe.