Quotes About Morality

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

The people of great value are the people who have a noble inner man

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

Holy Spirit convicts us when we do something wrong, He guides us back to the right path

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.