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Quotes About Morality

The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.
~ Tzvetan Todorov
Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly
~ Confucius
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.
~ David Tennant
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
~ George Washington
Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.
~ C. S. Lewis
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.
~ Thomas Lickona
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
~ Dogen
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
~ Pliny the Elder
They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
~ Edmund Burke
I think everybody has a good and bad side.
~ Master P
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
~ Aristotle
I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.
~ Tucker Max
As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.
~ Joycelyn Elders
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
~ Peter Abelard
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
~ Sappho
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
~ Miguel de Cervantes