Quotes About Morality

I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

The lesser evil is also evil.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.