Quotes About Morality

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

Don't be a person of success, be a person of value.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.