Quotes About Morality

Better destroy the body than the soul.' ~Rosamond

Virtue was its own reward.

I read somewhere that every inch of rope used in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so that wherever a bit of it is found it is known. That is the text of my little sermon to you. Virtue, which means honour, honesty, courage, and all that makes character, is the red thread that marks a good man wherever he is.

He was not a perfect child, by any means, but his faults were of the better sort; and being early taught the secret of self-control, he was not left at the mercy of appetites and passions, as some poor little mortals are, and then punished for yielding to the temptations against which they have no armor.

I had learned the priceless worth of a pure heart...

When people do one mean thing they are very likely to do another

Better lose your life than your soul, and one such passion leads to worse sins

never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live.

it cost him an effort to speak out then and there, because his conscience would not let him be silent.

Money couldn't keep shame and sorrow out of rich people's houses; another that, though she was poor, she was a great deal happier, with her youth, health, and good spirits, than a certain fretful, feeble old lady who couldn't enjoy her comforts; a third that, disagreeable as it was to help get dinner, it was harder still have to go begging for it; and the fourth, that even carnelian rings were not so valuable as good behavior.

I never yield to injustice if I can help it, ...

Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?

For the sincere wish to be good is half the battle.

But, Sir, I thought every story should have some sort of a moral, so I took care to have a few of my sinners repent.

for though we do want to be good, it's hard work, and we forget, and don't do our best.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts, rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

It is not cowardly to flee temptation, and nobody whose opinion is worth having will ridicule any brave attempt to conquer one's self. Don't mind it, Charlie, but stand fast, and I am sure you will succeed.

Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good. This is the harder task to choose, yet the only success that satisfies, the only honor that outlives death.

She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will'

You will find that money can buy everything, even the conscience and integrity of a priest, began Tempest.

Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good.

I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing, sometimes, that father and mother hadn't been so dreadfully particular about such things.

Three decades of being the most respectable science professional or suburban mother count for nothing set against one fuck in a doorway.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.