Quotes About Morality

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

The end doesn't justify the means.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.