Quotes About Morality

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Virtue is its own punishment.