Quotes About Morality

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Call me old-fashioned," Deepak said, "but I've always believed that hard work pays off. My version of the Beatitudes. Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself... one day it all works out. Of course, I don't know that people who wronged you suffer or get their just deserts. I don't think it works that way . But I do think that one day you get your reward.

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself...one day it all works out.

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks, or how big the Emperor's palace happens to be.

Thou shall not operate on the day of a patient's death.

Doing the wrong thing to do the right thing

his crime was to belong to the losing side, or perhaps even the wrong side. But all he'd done was follow orders...

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

we uncovered something darker and more sinister, a true meditation on today's society. What do we value? Lies or facts. Posturing or morality.

Almost two years had passed once again since his father's death. Hugo remained in the city, pure and strong as a virgin; for the man who harbours a god in his breast will remain untouched by the baseness which the world holds in store.

Updike quashed the voice of his conscience, while at the same time clinging to a "me-first Salvationism.

Doing the right thing is often a lonely road

The strength of a nation is derived from the character, not from the wealth, nor from the multitude of its people.

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Meyer summarizes his code of honor as "(1) Show up, (2) Work hard. (3) Be kind. (4) Take the high road.

Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe.

When we shift our emphasis from behavior to character, people evaluate choices differently. Instead of asking whether this behavior will achieve the results they want, they take action because it is the right thing to do. In the poignant words of one Holocaust rescuer, "It's like saving somebody who is drowning. You don't ask them what God they pray too. You just go and save them.

Rasca a un altruista y verás sangrar a un hipócrita.

Her parents were religious people who never renounced their obligation to love their daughter or their obligation to be ashamed.

Do you feel for the man hungry enough to steal?" Commander Ga asked as they drove by. "Or for the men who must hunt him down?" "Isn't it the bird who suffers?" Sun Moon asked.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.