Quotes About Morality

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Cheating is cheating. Some coaches believe if you can get away with it, cheating is smart. I have no respect for those guys.

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.

Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect. It's the principle of it.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy.

I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.

The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!